#external

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

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It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

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I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself. ↗

— Maria Shriver

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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ↗

— Freya Stark

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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. ↗

— Fernando Flores

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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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