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We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#counsel #despair #determination #diligence #few

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had. ↗

— Cobi Jones

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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. ↗

— Terry Josephson

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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

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It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

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