#mined

In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction. ↗

— Edward Everett

#conformity #designs #determined #direction #disastrous

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ↗

— Richard Branson

#car #determined #few #fields #find

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#been #determined #experiences #i #many

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. ↗

— Dee Brown

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If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#areas #closely #examined #few #guarantee

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-life

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing. ↗

— George Ryan

#bush #case #closely #doing #examined

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

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A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. ↗

— Ron Paul

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

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