You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
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A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's hard to say. Whenever you play with a group of people for a long time it influences the way that you… — Chris McCaughan Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We are neither a regional power nor are the Balkans our sphere of influence. These are self-confident countries. We should be particularly… — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence,… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My biggest influence was actually my mother's left hand. Because, before I went to bass, I was playing guitar. And when she… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Because present procedures by design favor the affluent, the poor are being increasingly marginalized. And because the poor are so marginalized, they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a… — Colleen Jones Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
You are unhappy and negative because of how you think, but you can change the way you think. With a little work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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