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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit. ↗

— John Green

#determination

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#self-determination #determination

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-actualization #self-determination #determination

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#skepticism #truth #determination

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#determination

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#angels #civil-war #democracy #destiny #determination

How is it possible to have a civil war? ↗

— George Carlin

#funny #humor #terminology #war #funny

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #excuses #failure #perserverance #success

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it. ↗

— Homer Hickam

#curiosity #determination #homer-hickam #learning #october-sky