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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. ↗

— Josef Albers

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...you influenced me, in a way in which no one else did. ↗

— Michael Kelahan

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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. ↗

— W.S. Merwin

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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

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My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. ↗

— Spike Milligan

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The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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