'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics and in the modern age in the West is is the last best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.

Somehow the greater the public opposition to the health care bill the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political financial and military support and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible it's amazing.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature and is determined in its actions by itself alone.