#influence

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#certain #certain point #children #emotionally #family

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. ↗

— Amy Tan

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First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#diseases #first #first of all #genes #human

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#look #our #our world #politics #truth

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#civic #development #economic #economic life #fact

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. ↗

— Charles King

#change #church #got #honestly #hymn