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“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.”

May Stills Shows Natural Levels Results Teacher Influence Teaching Capacity Accounts Raises Developing Decline Pupils Good Teacher

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.”

May Certain Results Existence Taken Influence Produce Higher Accounts Importance Finite Magnitude

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.”

Writing Process Secret Behinds Attention Influence Events Accounts Historical Diversion Great Events

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.”

People Children Interest Influence Drug Losing Accounts Relation Neglect Destroying Behaviour Typical Cult Addict Bank Accounts Draining Losing Interest

Author:Keith Henson

“The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.”

Way Trying Ideas Earth Fall Influence Effects Planets Accounts Balls Tables Western Blow Pool Leafs Galaxy Neglected Convergence Pool Table

Book:Chaos: Making a New Science

Source: Chaos: Making a New Science

“Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.”

Giving Influence Products Accounts Google Preference Ranking

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.”

Ifs Humans Done Eye Christian Life Is Dies Influence Divine Victory Conflict Accounts Finals Deeds Income Human Life Welfare His Eyes Contribution Midst Behalf Overflow Deeds Done

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.”

Persons Social Memories Situation Known Influence Accounts Conformity Contagion

Author:Rob Roberge

“The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation.”

Should Wells Country Economy Influence Accounts Increase Stability Inflation Decrease Central Banks

Author:Vladimir Putin

“When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.”

Men Should Rights Influence Equal Accounts Jew Granted Equal Rights Civics Hegel

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.”

Thinking Should Long Use Goal Term Natural Company Heard Influence Development Accounts Including Long Term Accounting Integrating Sustainable Development Accountants

Author:Kofi Annan

“If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.”

Ifs Mind Body Suffering Courses Influence Eating Accounts Drinking Pursue Affected Infirmity Power Of The Mind Intemperance

Book:Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III

Source: Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III

“What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.”

Thinking Two Happens Happiness Three Growth My Own Fate Influence Personality Accounts Linked Enlightening Detached

Book:A Backward Glance

Source: A Backward Glance

“Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.”

World Born Teach Fate Influence Humility Circumstances Accounts Responsible Credit Debit

Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”

Use Political Influence Politician Accounts Investment Saving Comparison Savings Saving Money Savings Accounts

Author:Andrew Young

“It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.”

Should Art Philosophy Government Law Science Courses Energy Strong Social Emotion Technology Clear Influence Source Ethics Accounts Affection Science And Technology Strong Emotions

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.”

May School Science Sides Natural Influence Students Pure Accounts Excellence Excellent Reasoning Chemistry Dominant Theoretical Natural Science Great Influence

Book:Theories of Solutions

Source: Theories of Solutions

“The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.”

Firsts Important Seems Science Nations Community Known Progress Influence Century Civilization Accounts Realised Nineteenth Century Successors Civilised Scientific Progress

Book:Education and National Progress

Source: Education and National Progress

“We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.”

World Firsts Political Strong Taken Influence Economic Policy Ignorance Economics Organization Accounts Prejudice Notes Confusion Factors Policy Making

Author:Ronald Coase

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