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“Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…”
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026
"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world."
From Fox News • Feb. 21, 2022
“I’m not Suzanne. I’m not channeling her externals or her person. I’m trying to channel her feelings about her experiences and principles. It’s more about being in the moment.”
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017
The externals, like the wealth – I don’t know Tolstoy thought those were the answers.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2015
No doubt it has localised and confined itself, but it is no longer at the disposal of externals and accident: it has laid the foundation for higher developments.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Vocabulary lists containing external
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