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• Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.

  Paul Samuelson

  War, Two, Mit

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• Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

  Eric Hoffer

  Character, World, Way

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." Now ask him to name the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." This tells us that we should not necessarily be paying a whole lot of attention to real estate brokers.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Names, Justice

  Dave Barry (2010). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Powerful, Psychics, Two

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You probably already have stuff you can wear and there's a safety factor. You're dressed for success, in a way, if you look like you grew up with success.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Fashion, Clothes, Safety

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• Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.

  David Finckel

  Ideas, Years, People

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• It is very important to have a correct socio-economic development forecast and plan, in which inflation being a vital investment factor should be the key indicator

  Tatyana Golikova

  Keys, Important, Development

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• As to whether it will increase will depend very much on that feel-good factor and the sense of confidence being restored in the people that life is going to get much better for them here at the end of the day. I do not think you will be able to shut the tap off. It will not stop abruptly like that.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Thinking, People, Feel Good

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When you're at the beginning of your career, there are a lot of, "I don't care about this," jobs that you take because it's about building your resume and building connections. There are so many factors that don't have anything to do with choosing for the material.

  Billy Porter

  Jobs, Careers, Connections

  Source: collider.com

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• Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

  Michael Specter

  Dollars, Cost, Care

  "Chipotle vs. McDonald's: The Rise Of Fast Casual Food In 'The New Yorker'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. October 27, 2015.

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• Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Hands, Two, Community

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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• The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

  Herbert Hoover

  Recovery, Essentials, Restoration

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'

  Ben Hecht

  Thinking, Empires, Barbarians

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Intellectual, Events

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.178, Princeton University Press

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• The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Breakup, Russia, Ukraine

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• Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Historical, Environmental, Individual Talent

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• I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.

  Phil Mickelson

  Winning, Thinking, Play

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• Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

  Henry Ford

  Able, Suspects

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• The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.

  Steve Jobs

  Faces, Major Change, Decades

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.

  Dharma Singh Khalsa

  Cancer, Mutation, Pushing

  Dharma Singh Khalsa (2003). “Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Teacher, Pride, Thinking

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• The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

  Nick Bostrom

  Self, Brain, Needs

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.43, OUP Oxford

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• To win the X Factor would mean the world to me and my family. I'd buy mum and dad a house and then I think I would buy myself a car and have a little shopping trip.

  Leona Lewis

  Dad, Mean, Winning

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• In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.

  Dave Barry

  People, Today, Used

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• The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.

  Paracelsus

  Animal, Men, Medicine

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