Influence Quotes
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Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
Erskine Caldwell
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The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.
Norman Lockyer
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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.
Mikhail Bakunin
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If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.
Bob Goff
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
Ray Bradbury
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I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.
Ray Bradbury
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It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.
Sharon Draper
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This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.
Carroll Quigley
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I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe, and this is what interests me most about it. I believe that as science advances religion necessarily recedes, and this is a process I wish to encourage, because I consider that, on the whole, the influence of religion is malign.
William B. Bonnor
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There was a whole scene that was influenced by hip-hop, dance music and club culture and that was really how the journey started.
Max Lousada
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Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.
Chico Xavier