#mined

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#better #better life #came #dad #determined

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#life #me #much #pure #randomness

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#determined #ever #fully #inanimate #laws

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#determined #gets #government #happening #home

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#determined #domains #gertrude #gertrude stein #literature

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #attained #case #country #disarmament

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#authorizing #demonstrations #diversity #important #itself

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#determined #early #early childhood #failure #handles

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years. ↗

— James Randi

#doctor #eventually #examined #few #further

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#consequences #environmental #examined #genetically #hadn