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• The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.

  John Ziman

  Mean, Years, Paper

  "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 56-57, 1976.

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• Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.

  Russell Barkley

  Self, Brain, Levels

  Russell A. Barkley (2000). “Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents”, p.48, Guilford Press

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• . . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Doe, Ministry

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.8, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Buddhism, Cities

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• The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Credit, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.34, IHS Press

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• The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, People, Doe

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• Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Victory, Balance

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• The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Mind, Important, Devil

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• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, Two

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• The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Criticism

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• The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.

  Muriel Spark

  Lying, Two, People

  Muriel Spark (2014). “The Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays”, p.31, Carcanet

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• the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

  Agnes Repplier

  Actors, Littles, Theater

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• Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

  Maria Montessori

  Helping, Environment, Hinder

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

  Hannah Arendt

  Powerful, Thinking, Affair

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.

  Bill Walsh

  Nfl, People, Support

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.229, Penguin

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• A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.

  Robert M. Price

  Simple, Miracle, Religion

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.116, Wildside Press LLC

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• Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.

  Paul Caponigro

  Running, Art, Inspire

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• Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

  Rhonda Britten

  Reality, Keys, Investing

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• You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play. If you love the game, play the position you love. Some positions get paid more, but at the end of the day you gotta play the game you love.

  LeSean McCoy

  Games, Play, The End Of The Day

  "Interview: LeSean McCoy Talks Chip Kelly, Kobe Bryant, & Nick Foles' Rap Knowledge". Interview with Maurice Peebles, www.complex.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Any job that allows me to use my pure water cleaning system and water fed pole is one I love. The wow factor for the customer after we [New View Window Cleaning] are done and they can't believe what we did with "just water and a brush" is something I never tire of.

  Tony Evans

  Jobs, Believe, Views

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• That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Meditation, Three, Inward

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• Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Strong, Civilization

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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• Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.13, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Tragedy, Development, Facts

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• Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Artistic, Homosexuality, Masculinity

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.23, Northwestern University Press

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