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1 " The voices you listen to and obey determine to a large extent what you become. "
2 " Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them. "
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3 " People do not see that the main question is not : " Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : " Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: " Can I love? "
4 " Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth. "
― Arthur Koestler , The Ghost in the Machine
5 " The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun? "
― Sri Chinmoy , The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
6 " Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. "
― Carolyn G. Heilbrun
7 " A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes — as it is already to a large extent — no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a “free-range” warren but a “battery” one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed. "
― Italo Calvino , Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition
8 " The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply. "
9 " In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. "
10 " The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. "
11 " Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. "
