#deter

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#determined #man #prove #round #time

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. ↗

— Lou Holtz

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#attitude #capable #determines #doing #how

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. ↗

— Horace

#deterred #disgrace #often #others

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that. ↗

— Charles Horner

#deterrence #hussein #nuclear #outside #russian

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway. ↗

— Charles Horner

#deal #deterred #fact #folks #nuclear

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#determined #loafer #machine #monkey #more

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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