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• Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up with our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

  Danny Glover

  Powerful, Class, Ideas

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high.

  Amanda Ripley

  War, Evil, Suffering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Ocean, Mean, Swimming

  Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

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• Popularity is the product of two factors: (a) how compelling material you offer, and (b) how easy it is to access it. Host free pirated movies and users will flock to the site, even if it's difficult to use.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Two, Use, Host

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• Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.

  Sivananda

  Night, Civilization, Greatest Treasure

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• FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

  Bill Dedman

  Loss, Decision, Doe

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• They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?

  Raghad Hussein

  Children, Father, Taken

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• In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

  Tadao Ando

  Light, Important

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• Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  What Matters, Storm, Captains

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• There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Country, Moving, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.

  Kenny Loggins

  Fun, Careers, Creative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Once the whistle goes, it's game on and you shut out the outside factors. If you thought about things, you wouldn't be able to do your job. For 95 minutes you have to totally concentrate and that's what we'll do.

  Joleon Lescott

  Jobs, Games, Able

  Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too.

  Christy Turlington

  Real, Team, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.

  Bill Gates

  People, Perfect, Marketing

  Source: time.com

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• The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.

  Alberto Gonzales

  War, Order, Atrocities

  "Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to the Conflict with Al Qaeda and the Taliban". Memorandum for the President, August 25, 2010.

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• I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

  Che Guevara

  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics". Book by Paul Hollander, p. 224, 1983.

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• There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

  Elie Metchnikoff

  Elements, Importance, Constant

  Elie Metchnikoff (1907). “Immunity in infective diseases”

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• In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Good Luck

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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• Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Real, War, Paper

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Believe, Long, Taught

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• For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At work or in daily life, factors other than strict reasoning are often more important. Sometimes intuition and instinct provide better guides; sometimes computer simulations are more convenient or more reliable; sometimes rules of thumb or back-of-the-envelope estimates are all that is needed.

  Lynn Steen

  Real, People, Intuition

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• The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.

  Ramit Sethi

  Important, Rooms, Rich

  Ramit Sethi (2009). “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”, p.7, Workman Publishing

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• The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, Views, Race

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• By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.

  Paul Samuelson

  Depressing, Principles, Immigration

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