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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

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The examined life is no picnic. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

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I'm determined to be a diva. ↗

— Lexa Doig

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. ↗

— George Eliot

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I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

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In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ↗

— Franz Boas

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