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“As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.”

Thinking Important Born Roles Influence Color Couple Models Skins Males Strikes African American Role Models Skin Color Positive Role Model

Author:Omari Hardwick

“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.”

Said Book Dies Reading Born Forever Influence Reading Books Dominion Books And Reading Born To Die

Author:William Styron

“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”

“Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.”

People Way Mind Spiritual Born Levels Existence Accepting Knowing Influence Effects Ego Constant Unconscious Manifest Psychics Objections

Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.”

Ifs Giving Children Wisdom Grows Born Growing Up Influence Dependent Omnipotent

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.”

Thinking Years Believe Made Values Born Influence Skills Hunger Affected Villain

Author:Ron Perlman

“Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.”

Born Wonder Virtue Influence Bears Please Highest Lows Court Rate Strikes Soil Penetrate Scarce Gems

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems

“Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”

Source: The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892

“We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.”

Persons Said Speak Stars Born Influence Planets Graves Astrology Gloomy Jupiter Saturn Jovial

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.”

Mind Doe Born Memories Half Influence Lips Affection Deny Dinner Stores Wit Flash Fluent Truffles

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men and being born without a preference for a certain type of person. For me, that is my story in finding love in lots of different people, and that's been the second biggest influence in my music.”

People Men Feels Believe Kind Persons Different Stories Certain I Believe Born Influence Type Findings I Believe In Different Kinds Preference Different Peoples Finding Love Free Love

Author:Lana Del Rey

“The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.”

People Wells Able House Born Simple Rich Too Much Influence Honest Honesty Mass Simplicity Acquire Senate Representatives House Of Representatives Ostracism

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, where-ever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.”

Mean States President Born United United States Influence Security Citizens Capable Constitution Native Adopted Plague Provision

Book:Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes. With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected View of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union

Source: Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes. With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected View of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union

“For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.”

Years Government Born Influence Independent Educational Republic Schooling Subsidies

Author:Marshall Fritz

“Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.”

Feels Should Trying Looks Mother Born Half Our Lives Influence Teaching Huge Cautious Be Cautious

Author:Amy Tan

“I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born”

Country Interest Born Liberty Poverty Rights Influence Danger Son Ambition Sacred Terror Motive My Son Betray Posterity Disgrace Transmit

Author:George Mason

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”

Inspirational Years Children Character Born Influence Hundred Building Character Proper Time

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

“In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.”

Ifs Thinking Done Play Felt Born Influence Honesty Truth Is Charlie

Author:Benny Carter

“I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.”

Children Today Remember Black Born Memories Poverty Impossible Influence Childhood Photograph Hunger Hungry Confusion

Author:Gordon Parks

“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Play Names Born Growing Up Influence Mom Type Instruments Musical Saint My Mom Neighborhood New Orleans Humming Musical Influence

Author:Troy Andrews

“Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'”

Wells Country Kids Father Parent Born Influence Decided Clubs Country Clubs

Author:Charles Koch

“[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.”

World Born Influence Sentimental Holmes Watson Pragmatism Whimsical Friendships And Relationships

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch