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“Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.”

Source: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe

“Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.”

Has Beens Language Clear Atheism Influence Taste Contemporary Contradiction Ambiguity Accord Straightforward Edited

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.”

Next Literature Language Race Written Influence Exaggeration English Literature Spoken Language

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.”

World Religious One Thing Atheism Influence Normal Positive Atheism Assumption Feminine

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.”

Giving May Government Individual Force Attention Atheism Influence Claims Positive Atheism Tendencies Appropriate Reverence Consistency Persuasion Permanence

Book:Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness

Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness

“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.”

Wells Enough Practice Atheism Influence Modern Dues Short Time Modern Times

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.”

Ifs Men Years Stills Play Law Force Process Views Attitude Psychology Atheism Influence Exercise Years Ago Terror Atmosphere Poison Reasoning Score Bigotry Heretic Armed Forces Invoke

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.”

People Humans Enemy Impossible Atheism Influence Regard Species Convince Bigotry Belonging Ideological

Author:Louis J. Halle

“I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.”

Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

“Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.”

May Interest Moral Atheism Influence Congress

Author:Richard Mentor Johnson

“If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.”

Ifs Way Action Church Responsibility Atheism Influence Constitution Positive Atheism Servant Affected Public Servants

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.”

States Helping School Attitude Atheism Influence Particular Positive Atheism Aids Creeds Public School Hostility Reservations

Book:Writings

Source: Writings

“Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.”

Humans Atheism Influence Positive Atheism Features Human Society Pernicious Redeeming

Author:Theodore Schroeder

“"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."”

Believe Humans Children Said Fantasy Atheism Influence Horror Died Don't Believe Saint Positive Atheism Nervous Believe In God Santa Santa Claus Nervous System Banging

Book:The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel

Source: The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel

“It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.”

“One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.”

“Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.”

“It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'”

Use Government Law Steps Wife Influence Court Flavor Brethren Polygamy

Author:Abraham H. Cannon

“To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.”

People Use Political Powerful Attention Influence Figures Tvs Our Society Devices Voters Usual Very Powerful Filters Bypass

Author:Alexander Stille

“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.”

People Different Young Levels Influence Media Emotional Mass Passing Passings Performers Overwhelming Eccentric Mass Media Passing Through

Author:Bob Dylan

“I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.”

Interesting Numbers Teacher Influence Smart Strongest Great Teacher Really Smart

Author:Meryl Streep

“Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.”

Littles Light Influence Emotional Judging Models Opposites Critics Cancer Complaining Circles Compare Criticize Cynicism Competing Proactive Victimization Circle Of Influence

Author:Stephen Covey

“When I commit to a role, I always tell myself that role is king. That's the Bible. If I start to judge my character, than it's going to influence my performance, and I don't want that. I want to find the truth in the character.”

Ifs Want Character Roles Influence Judging Kings Performances Commit

Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“When you watch CNN and they're giving you news based on tweets that people are sending out, you realize that society is really changing. The collective public have a really big voice that they didn't previously have, and they're influencing the trajectory of how we are socially with one another.”

People Giving Bigs Voice Realizing Watches Influence News Collectives Tweet Cnn Trajectory

Author:Megan Fox

“A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.”

People Writing Kind Philosophy Character Use Body Song Stars Influence Rocks Style Shapes Lifestyle All Kinds Devices Rock Star Influencing People

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.”

Years Stills Bigs School Views Influence Havens Changed Brother Old Man Mentality I Haven't Changed

Author:David Bowie

“The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.”

Ifs Way Influence Experiments Factors Controlled

Author:Alison Gopnik

“The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter. I just think it's a really great tool to communicate with fans and influence conversations and raise awareness about things I'm interested in, that I think deserve some attention.”

People Thinking Knows Want Attention Fans Influence Awareness Conversation Deserve Tools Raises Communicate Clever Great Things Posts Amazed Really Great Cleverness Retweet

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was '65, I don't know. Somebody showed me a copy of the "East Village Other", which was an underground newspaper. And... it had comics in it! And they weren't superhero comics.”

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Author:Trina Robbins

“I saw the comics in the East Village Other, and they weren't superhero comics, they were all about hippies and all about things hippies were interested in. And there was one page in particular, a full page strip called "Gentle's Trip Out" signed "Panzika", and it was totally, totally psychedelic, and really, I don't know if it made any sense at all but it looked so great, and I thought, "This is what I want to do, this is my big influence," and it was.”

Ifs Knows Want Made Bigs Saws Influence Particular Pages East Gentle Village Superhero Hippie Psychedelic East Village

Author:Trina Robbins

“I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is.”

Knows Has Beens Stills Bigs Wonder Influence Objects Men Women Icons Wonder Woman Superman And Batman

Author:Trina Robbins

“All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.”

Stories Ability Influence Storytelling Literary Works Great Literary

Author:Michael Scott

“I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.”

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Author:Kim Kardashian

“The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.”

People Way Country Reason Government Form Failing Influence Kings Needed Balance Shapes Protect Congress Checks Ass Corporations Branches Cash Branches Of Government

Author:Immortal Technique

“Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.”

Kids Choices Parent Influence Grew Grew Up Collections

Author:Ryan Lewis

“There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family...”

Kids Sports Mistake Too Much Influence Media Negative Athlete Making Mistakes Pressured Professional Athlete Sports In General

Author:Kristopher Belman

“I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.”

Way Believe Used I Believe Influence Mass Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Cee Lo Green

“A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.”

Doe Play Home Today Individual Roles Rich Influence Fashion Active Very Strong Nails Dressings Polish Doers Rich Women

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.”

People Thinking Looks Persons Stills Important Helping Stories Voice Influence Like You Messages Critics Missions Ballet Shocking Ballerina Narrow-minded

Author:Misty Copeland

“I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.”

People Littles Doe Use Political Interest Rich Influence Taxes Gains Lots Of Money Fundamentalism Rich People Political Influence

Author:George Soros

“I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.”

Thinking Self Kids Young Culture Influence Discovery Pops Self Discovery Pop Culture Define Yourself Positive Influence

Author:Terry Gross

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

People Thinking Inspirational Mind Believe Motivational Remember Success Belief Can Do Work Business Education Attitude Learning Successful Influence Achieve Inspire Succeed Limits Ambition Empowerment Entrepreneur Mindset Believe In Yourself Being Successful Women Empowerment Successful People Business Success Success In Life Empowering Women Road To Success Trust Yourself Remember You Remembers You Successful Business Believe You Can Motivational Business Empowered Women Motivational Success Succes Successful Women Successful Life Successful Entrepreneurs Inspirational Strong Women Achieving Success Business World Business Owners Achiever Motivational Work Keep Believing Achieved Success Career Success Strong Female Starting A Business Will To Succeed Small Business Owners Limiting Beliefs Career Women Successful Career Motivational Achievement Career Motivation Influential People You Can't Change People Time Limit Successful Work Positive Work Careers And Life Monday Motivation Daily Business Limiting Yourself Positive Success Inspirational Believe In Yourself Launching A Business

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.”

Men Matter Problem Choices Challenges Influence Tasks Climate Solve Related Nutrition Mistaken Can Not Metabolism Acceleration

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.”

People Believe States Government I Believe United Numbers United States Influence Amount Exercise Affair Small Numbers

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence.”

Giving Persons Ends States Use Political Interest Influence Economic Benefits Motive Expenses Political Influence

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and fear, that God isn't blind towards propagating your positive influence, and finally that you'll leave a meritorious legacy.”

Self Hands Taken Doubt Influence Blind Notion Valuable Legacy Rejoice Rejected Self-doubt Doubt And Fear Positive Influence

Author:Michael Bassey

“Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?”

Thinking Should Three Leader Influence Happenings Managers Outcomes Three Things

Author:John Baldoni

“Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.”

People Firsts Interest Influence Determined

Book:The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

Source: The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.”

Certain Voice Powerful Influence Mom My Mom

Author:Common

“Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.”

People Knows Influence Position Projects Shakers Movers And Shakers

Book:Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales

Source: Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales

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