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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame Nkrumah
The ties that bind us are inherent and stronger than the external influences that divide us.
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Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
Alexander Hamilton
Overseas impact is truly the Trojan horse to a nation. We must be vigilant to prevent its infiltration.
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If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.
John Henrik Clarke
If we are to shape our future, we must be in control of the thoughts that determine it.
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It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.
Lev S. Vygotsky
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There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
T. D. Jakes
There is a divine presence, a superior force, a deity who oversees and governs affairs that are beyond your jurisdiction and authority.
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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
George Orwell
It is appalling that those who are unenlightened wield such sway.
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
John Knox
You cannot provoke and sway simultaneously.
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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
Bernard Law Montgomery
Self-control fortifies the intellect so that it is resistant to the deteriorating effects of apprehension.
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My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!
Jennifer Lopez
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One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.
Sonia Delaunay
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo
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It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
Adrian Rogers
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Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you.
Jeremy Hammond
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Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
Beatrix Potter
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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
Dashiell Hammett
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In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.
Peter Brook
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To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
John C. Maxwell
21.
If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.
Tupac Shakur
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If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
Fran Lebowitz
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No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.
Mahathir Mohamad
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We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.
Bob Goff
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No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.
Gary Yourofsky
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I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.
Franklin P. Adams
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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
Joel Hodgson
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
Isaac Hayes
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Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.
Milos Forman
32.
I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.
Pia Toscano
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
Thomas More
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The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.
Fernando Botero
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A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.
Thom Gunn
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I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.
Matt Sharp
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Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first.
Greg Smith
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It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Margot Asquith
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Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
David O. McKay
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Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension.
Peter Rogers
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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.
Juan Goytisolo
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We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.
John Adams
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
George Washington
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But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence.
Kenzo Takada
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People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.
Bill Johnson
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With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.
Tommy Tenney
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Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?
Charles Grandison Finney