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• [a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

  Helene Deutsch

  Guilt, Heavy, Whole

  Helene Deutsch (1945). “The psychology of woman: a psychoanalytic interpretation. motherhood”, Saunders

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• War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  War, Civilization, Law

  "Germany and the next War" by Friedrich von Bernhardi, (Ch. I), 1911.

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• Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

  Ashley Judd

  Spring, Self

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• [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Race, Practice, Giving

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• A comprehensive list of factors brings predictive stability and predictive stability and predictive power.

  Robert Haugen

  Lists, Stability, Comprehensive

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book byRobert Haugen, Chapter 5, Predicting Future Stock Returns with the Expected-Return Factor Model, p. 56, 1999.

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• service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

  Lilian Whiting

  Spiritual, Attitude, Lying

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

  Chanda Kochhar

  Long, Growth, Requirements

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• The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

  John Battelle

  Notebook, Smart, Phones

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• I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish” factor).

  Misha Collins

  Long, Hug, Fascination

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• There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

  Tommy Chong

  Able, Nuance, Understand Me

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• Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Drug, Levels

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Thinking, Islands, Life And Death

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• While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Names, Profound, Quality

  "Ease of use: a system design challenge" by L.M. Branscomb and J.C. Thomas, IBM Systems Journal. Vol 23.3, September 1984.

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• While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Technology, Japan, Engineering

  Lewis M. Branscomb, Fumio Kodama (1993). “Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions”, University Press of America

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• Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Men, Games, Psychological

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Future, Past, Action

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• Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Believe, Kids, Stones

  "X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Patrick Wintour and Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Reality, Next, Rubbish

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• If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.

  Bill Vaughan

  Exercise, Thinking, Blood

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• Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memories, Technology, Leader

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• I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Stuff, Whimsical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  Barbara Corcoran

  War, Home, Winning

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

  Eric Close

  Longevity, Shows

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• It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

  Napoleon Hill

  Thinking, Service Culture, Important

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.148, John Wiley and Sons

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• There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Essentials, Three, Spirit

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