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“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”

Needs Age Lasts Life Is Energy Conditions Emotional Circumstances Determined Convinced Awakening Our Thoughts Vitality Thoughts On Life Emotional Life Close Relationship

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.”

Law Natural Justice Written Circumstances Demand Determined Endeavor Formulas Natural Justice

Author:Victor Cousin

“For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.”

Men May Soul Body Circumstances Determined Inevitable Avoided Precaution

Book:Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

Source: Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

“The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.”

World Mind Conditions Circumstances Determined

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.”

Circumstances Eternal Method Determined Warfare Usage

Book:Marxism & military affairs, 1921-1924

Source: Marxism & military affairs, 1921-1924

“The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.”

Different Form Culture Theory Evolution Circumstances Prove Species Patterns Determined Arise Prevailing Mutation

Book:Science And Human Behavior

Source: Science And Human Behavior

“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.”

May Would Be Moving Next Feet Fronts Circumstances Determined Moving Forward Willingness Chapters Next Chapter

Author:LIZ

“At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our country's best traditions under circumstances both difficult and complex. Thanks to their determined spirit of patriotism and professionalism, our country has a powerful and unified defense team, employing its forces in the constant quest for peace and freedom.”

“The situation in Georgia is determined by the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While we must acknowledge the reforms initiated by Mikheil Saakashvili that drastically lowered the level of corruption and authoritarian structures in the Georgian state, under the above-mentioned circumstances, the ruling elite must keep a firm grip on the country.”

Country States Levels Situation Circumstances Structure South Corruption Determined Reform Firm Acknowledge Regions Elites Ruling Georgia Georgians Breakaway

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”

“We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.”

Age Political Opportunity Growth Ability Boys Tree Conditions Development Circumstances Garden Stones Personal Growth Determined Apples Lions Innate Constrain Apple Trees Stone Age

Author:Jostein Gaarder