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It's our goal to have a process that No. 1 determines the threat to our homeland and No. 2, this will be expansively looked at, what is the President's strategy, especially in Syria, there's a lot of skepticism about the administration's commitment to dealing with ISIS or Daesh or ISIL or whatever you want to call them. That creates a lot of concern.

Bob Corker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The important thing is there has to be someone in the case who is actually injured by the law, that is what determines whether the court has jurisdiction.

Tara Grove

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He has a strong sense of values and character, his book 'Character is Destiny' is all about how character determines a person and determines events. He continues to want to fight for what needs to be done. He is unrelenting.

Kurt Volker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

Tony Robbins

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10 years ago

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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10 years ago

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

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10 years ago

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

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10 years ago

Life itself is a race, marked by a start and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value.

Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche

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10 years ago

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

John Milton

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10 years ago

Your Attitude determines your Socioeconomic Altitude

Med Jones

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10 years ago

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become

Maxwell Maltz

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10 years ago

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

George Eliot

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10 years ago

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

Zig Ziglar

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10 years ago

How you feel about your future determines how you perform today.

Brandon A. Trean

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11 years ago

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

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13 years ago

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx

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13 years ago

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

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13 years ago

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

Corrine Dewlow

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13 years ago

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work

Orison Swett Marden

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13 years ago

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

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13 years ago

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

Dale Carnegie

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13 years ago

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred A. Montapert

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13 years ago

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Robert A. Heinlein

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13 years ago

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

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14 years ago

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