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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
You
Yourself
Become
Own
Live
Else
Through
Never
Exert
Child
Influence
Anyone
Really
Your
Even
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
Drew Barrymore
God
Alone
Myself
Home
You
People
Dog
Cause
Lonely
Group
Too
Tremendous
Say
Out
See
Eating
Could
Between
Like
Content
Exert
Got
Go
Go Home
Friends
Hang
Oh
Just
Oh God
Difference
Being
Movie
Being Alone
Really
Watch
Night
This year, I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man; exert more effort in each of my endeavors professionally as well as personally; take love wherever I find it, and offer it to everyone who will take it.
Duane Allman
Love
Man
Will
Year
Everyone
Thoughtful
Find
More
Take
Fellow
Well
Fellow Man
Exert
Offer
Effort
Endeavors
Wherever
Personally
Who
Each
Professionally
Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they are yet the surest ties by which the old capitalist states maintain their influence, exercise financial control, and exert pressure on the customs, foreign and commercial policy of the young capitalist states.
Rosa Luxemburg
Financial
Old
Pressure
Control
Young
States
Emancipation
Though
Rising
Indispensable
Maintain
Policy
Ties
Exercise
Exert
Surest
Foreign
Commercial
Influence
Which
Customs
Capitalist
Loans
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean Koontz
Stupid
Exert
Always
God-Given
Human
Human Beings
Vigor
Beings
Right
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi
Win
Walk
Leader
Control
Group
Must
Never
He
Between
Longer
Himself
Exert
Does
Tightrope
Close
Gap
Consent
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
People
Devout
Exert
Witty
Affectionate
Themselves
Who
In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it's the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.
John Coltrane
Better
Try
Situation
Our
Our Lives
Musically
Must
Find
Something
Feel
Make
Exert
Effort
Department
Same
Any
Politically
Should
Lives
Socially
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
Maria Montessori
Travel
Man
Hero
Fly
Ocean
Increasing
Beneath
Tremendous
Air
Machinery
Through
He
Almost
Velocity
Tale
Powers
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Exert
Surface
Go
Were
Fantastic
Ever
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.
Nicholas Kristof
Food
Problems
Poverty
Think
Other
Worrying
About
Mental
Self-Discipline
Exert
Leaves
Tax
Capacity
Less
Bills
Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.
Alex Tizon
Yourself
Power
Important
Thinking
Way
Wayne
John
Restrain
Rather
More
John Wayne
Through
Brute
Ideal
Exert
Very
Than
American
Being
Manhood
Much
Notion
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
Angelina Grimke
Faithful
Flame
Christian
Moral
Would
Only
Indignation
Over
Exert
Exerted
Demoralizing
South
North
Die
Influence
Much
Holy
Rebuke
Slavery
The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
Baruj Benacerraf
Understanding
Control
Approach
Detailed
Determine
Study
Genes
Most
Identification
Exert
Proven
Which
Processes
Successful
Mechanism
Biological
Phenomena
Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.
Chris Webber
Happiness
Have Fun
Perspective
Energy
Bench
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Out
Kind
Through
Had
Puts
Like
Most
Because
Exert
Go
Sitting
Behind
The Hardest Thing
Really
Games
Fun
Ever
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Things
Basketball
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
Clara Schumann
Life
Myself
Health
Better
Preserved
Give
Calling
Exert
His
End
Person
May
In The End
Less
Each
Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
Coretta Scott King
War
Best
Injustice
Women
Gays
Moral
Disadvantaged
Exert
Up
Discrimination
Did
Wherever
Against
Persuasion
Show
The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.
Daniel Levitin
Time
Being Busy
Active
Busy
Enjoy
Would
Rather
Generally
Exert
Being
While
Themselves
Hard
Hard Time
Things
Starting
Amusing
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner
Truth
Character
Comedy
Matter
Older
More
Because
Exert
How
Gotten
Tragic
May
Essentials
Portraying
Need
Presenting
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emil Cioran
Needs
Freedom
Overcome
Mind
Negative
Long
First
Negation
Our
Once
Ourselves
Only
Habit
Exert
Fruitful
Acquired
Us
Adapt
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright
Liberty
Tyranny
Threshold
Own
Others
Our
Liberties
Uncertain
Step
Thus
Sure
Without
Exert
Doing
Expense
Them
Justly
Platform
Injury
Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.
Frederick Lewis Allen
World
Thought
Rest
First
Finally
Wilson
Give
Nobly
Terms
Exert
Itself
America
Wanted
Whereas
Whole
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
Henry Rollins
Strength
Great
Patience
Made
Year
Heights
Other
Those
Moral
Would
Tried
New
Make
Attributes
Altruism
Exert
Years
Lists
Shot
Show
Many
Resolutions
I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.
Howard Florey
Today
Ourselves
Must
Hopes
See
Purpose
Part
Nobel
Fail
Feel
Ideals
Exert
Scientists
Commemorate
Lack
Held
Whom
Utmost
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
Ivor Novello
Music
Good
Entertainment
Theatre
Mind
Picture
Few
Enjoy
Relaxation
Visitor
Good Music
Atmosphere
About
Determined
Charming
Fact
Hours
Exert
Surroundings
Influence
Holiday
Speaks
Each
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen
Woman
Satisfied
Cares
Herself
Pleasing
More
Over
Feels
Safe
Powers
She
Without
Exert
Always
Than
Disengaged
Done
May
Suspicion
Lady
Engaged
Agreeable
Her
Harm
Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.
Jeff Landry
Vote
Conservative
Sometimes
Try
Pressure
Made
Promises
Conservatives
Tremendous
Back
Extreme
Ways
Those
Members
Inside
Districts
Constituents
About
Catch
Exert
Opposite
Get
Flak
Them
Groups
Beliefs
Fundamental
Core
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