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• Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Real, Men, Discrepancies Between

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1872). “A Manual of Applied Mechanics”, p.4

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• Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Wings, Giving, Joy

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• . . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Wisdom, Children, Growing Up

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• If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

  Felix Dennis

  Luck, Delusion, Universal

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.59, Penguin

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• One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Writing, Mean, People

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• Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

  China Mieville

  Two, Fundamentals, Socialism

  "Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville". Interview with Joan Gordon, www.depauw.edu. November 2003.

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• Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.

  Robert Gilpin

  Political, United States, Cost

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.308, Princeton University Press

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• When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive.

  Tamsin Greig

  Thinking, Two, Acting

  "The eyebrows have it". Sunday Times, www.thetimes.co.uk. March 19, 2006.

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• In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Years, People, Lasts

  "Nazis in the News: 1933". www.pbs.org. March 5, 1933.

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• We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.

  Harold Innis

  Communication, Character, Civilization

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.99, University of Toronto Press

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• The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Book, Names, Events

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.

  Iwane Matsui

  Mean, Army, Government

  "Shanghai's Undeclared War: An Illustrated Factual Recording of the Shanghai Hostilities". Book by George C. Bruce, p. 54, 1937.

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• The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

  Reginald Maudling

  Party, Growth, World

  The Times, April 26, 1976.

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• The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

  Francisco Varela

  Long, Phases, Cybernetics

  Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela (1992). “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”, p.38, MIT Press

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• How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Ideas, Creating, Energy

  "The Times of India". June 10, 2009.

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• I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!

  George Ritzer

  Night, Thinking, People

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• Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Men, Primitive Man, Devil

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1918). “The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy”

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• The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

  Natalie Massenet

  Opportunity, Thinking, Luck

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• I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Character, Destiny

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• If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, Church, Soviet

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.216, Psychology Press

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• Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be
  massive influences

  Kevin Keegan

  Needs, Massive, Ten

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• The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

  Lawrence Reed

  Moral, Quiet, Vocation

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• The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, Practice

  "Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals". transcripts.cnn.com. February 28, 2000.

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• Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

  C. S. Lewis

  Next, Generations, Conscious

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.118, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

  Matthew Henry

  Heaven, Benefits, Advantage

  Matthew Henry, Ezekiel Blomfield (1808). “A new family Bible: containing Old and New Testaments”, p.360

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