Quotes with influences

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  • Henry David Thoreau Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Caleb Cushing And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • W. Clement Stone Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Robert Cialdini By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
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  • Blake Farenthold Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Elbert Hubbard He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Anne Tyler I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Buck Owens I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Jackson It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • George Eliot Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Brett Ratner Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Ben Barnes My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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