“ Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. ”
- Malcolm Bradbury- Copy
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“ In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it. ”
- Ivan Bloch- Copy
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“ If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you. ”
- Eric Allenbaugh- Copy
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“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life. ”
- Robert L. Payton- Copy
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“ I give because I want to, not because I ought to. I feel good knowing that my gifts of time and money are making a difference in the community and, hopefully, shaping spiritual moral values. ”
- Robert Bainum- Copy
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“ Oh, my God - I am really shaping the destiny of these characters. There's Patrick as Jean-Luc Picard, and he's now going to do a scene that I wrote. So that for me was the biggest sort of fan/professional synthesis. ”
- John Logan- Copy
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“ Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits, which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers an fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts… ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script. ”
- Robert Wise- Copy
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“ I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. ”
- Joseph McCarthy- Copy
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“ Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future. ”
- Hillary Clinton- Copy
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“ The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation, and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future. ”
- Hillary Clinton- Copy
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“ The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter. ”
- Salvatore Satta- Copy
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“ Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills — He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter… ”
- Olive Schreiner- Copy
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