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“In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked upon as large assemblies, of which all the inhabitants are members; their populace exercises a prodigious influence upon the magistrates, and frequently executes its own wishes without their intervention.”

Men May Together Wish Cities Influence Exercise Members Passionate Awakening Excitement Mutual Resolution Intervention Assembly Prompts Magistrates Prodigious

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.”

Way Feels Made Sometimes Feelings Wish Influence Painting Sells Selling Repeats

Author:Peter Doig

“Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.”

Ifs Years Kind Doe Film Next Wish Influence Car Cost Critics Explaining Motor Next Year Helicopters Postcards General Motors

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.”

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Matter Would Be Individual Wish Generations Influence Subjects Opposites Species Bones Accidents Flesh Reconcile Two Opposites External Influences

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien life-forms, and protect it from deterioration, then we must either allow Nature to rule or, if we wish to intervene, we must first acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of life.”

Ifs Firsts Form Wish Principles Influence Danger Particular Protect Aliens Threatened Simplest Emergence Deterioration Alien Life

Book:The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”

Ifs Knows Way Matter Would Be Three Given Wish Influence Policy Exercise One Day Spokes Three Wishes

Book:Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays

Source: Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays

“My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.”

Men May Home Inspiration Wish Influence Duty Return Welcome Paradise Spells American Woman My Wish Elevating Let Him Go

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn't do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I'd done more positive things.”

People Looks I Can Done Wish Responsibility Influence Taking Responsibility Arrested Footsteps Positive Things Influencing People

Author:Gucci Mane

“The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.”

Character Wish Opinion Influence Spread Welfare Rooted

Author:Samuel Butler