Factors Quotes - Page 28

• Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Life, Faith, Peace

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

  Joyce Brothers

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

  Betty Buckley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

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• I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Important, Capacity

  "Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism's 'Regenerative Capacity'". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  Eduardo Chillida

  Space, Boundaries

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• It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Language, Theory

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• I don't really exude that 'it' factor.

  Kelly Clarkson

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• I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

  Billy Corgan

  Idols, Hue, Problem

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• Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

  Simon Cowell

  Goes On, Bigs, Shock

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• Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.

  Simon Cowell

  Doors, Doe, Shots

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• What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

  Simon Cowell

  People, Records, Arguing

  "Simon Cowell v the NME: 'I don't take music too seriously'" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2009.

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• So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Determination, Succeed, Dice

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• Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Motivational, Poverty

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

  Jared Diamond

  Independent, Innovation, Openness

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• If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

  John Dingell

  Loss, Gun, Years

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• The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

  Snoop Dogg

  Artist, Thinking, Idols

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Business, Clients, Problem

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2001). “The Sign of the Four; Or, the Problem of the Sholtos”, p.11, iUniverse

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• Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

  Sylvia Earle

  Loss, Resilience, Coral Reefs

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• I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Voters, Consideration

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• Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Religious, Positivity, Men

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• There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Animal, Suffering

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• Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Differences, Numbers

  "Obama Takes On Market-Based Government" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2009.

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• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Numbers, Important, Problem

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Textbook by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Article 329, 1801.

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