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«It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract»
Author: Alan Shepherd
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«Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.»
«It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.»
Author: Claude M. Bristol
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«One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.»
«No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.»
«Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.»
«It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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a few, determined, leaders, majority, rebellion, Rebellions, sound, the rebellion
«Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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criteria, determined, ethical, largely, plans, require, unique
«In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude»
Author: Thomas Merton
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age of, crowds, determined, lament, lamenting, solitary, threshold, thresholds
«Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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