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And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Amount Character Earned Exerted Hardly His Income Influence Less Often Person Than Very Way Which

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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

Topics: Christian Demoralizing Die Exert Exerted Faithful Flame Holy Indignation Influence Moral Much North Only Over Rebuke Slavery South Would

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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

~Benjamin F. Wade

Topics: Along Am Considerations Current Drag Exerted Liberty Men Persuasive Power Road Travel Unconscious I Am

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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

~Charles Babbage

Topics: Actual Altogether Depend Does Each Effort Employed Exerted Fatigue Force Frame Frequency Human Muscles Partly Produced Which

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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

~Charles De Montesquieu

Topics: Administration Consists Degree Different Exerted Knowing Occasions Power Proper Should Sublimity

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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

~Charles Inglis

Topics: Affections Amiable Dark Exerted Laid Malevolent Mild Passions Principles Soul Suppressed Them Virtuous

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As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Also Bear Been Brought Claims Clear Everybody Exerted False Had Having Help Make Many Officer Pressure Prosecutor Protect Recording Tape Tell Who Witness Would Years You I Can

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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Adaptability Application Because Combined Elasticity Exerted Existing Her Influence Laws Life Measured Morals Power Retention Tenacious Too Value Vast Which Willing Woman

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My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Artistic City Cultural Dialect Exerted Genuinely Hold Jews Later Learned Loved Other Parents Powerful Sophistication Them Values Vienna Why Years

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The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

~Gerard Debreu

Topics: Containing Dark Exerted German Occupation Outside Outside World Paris Pressure Strong World

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