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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it`s going to go and where you`ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don`t let anyone deter you from that.

- Eartha Kitt

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn`t deter her.

- Loni Anderson

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they`re against it.

- Ann Coulter

Iraq`s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

- Al Gore
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We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we`ve got to be happy. I don`t let the outside world deter me.

- Dawn Fraser

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

- Abraham Lincoln

Keep the doors closed and replace weather stripping where necessary. Cutting back branches from your home also may help deter carpenter ants from gaining entry.

- Steve Jacobs

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

- Al Hostetler

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

- Al Weed
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Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

- Alison Cottrell

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

- Allan Walsh

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.

- Ammie Kim

Anarchy will only deter investment,

- Barbara Lyons

We see export potentials of leather products to Indian market, but India`s cumbersome rules may deter us.

- Barbara Stephenson

We think the felony penalty will deter people from trying to go to a cockfight,

- Barry Axelrod