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“I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).”

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.”

Firsts Political Impossible Return Decades Factors Defined Eras Decline Political Leadership Halcyon Days

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.”

Doe Reason Emotion Errors Dues Factors

Author:Kurt Gödel

“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

“[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.”

Knows Way Guy Theory Evolution Factors Satan Worshippers

Author:Kent Hovind

“It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.”

“Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.”

Form Strong Conscious Connected Intellect Factors Phenomenon Sublime Positively

Author:Pitirim Sorokin

“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.”

Years Mean Century Paper Scientist Size Factors

Author:John Ziman

“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.”

Self Levels Brain Impossible Normal Factors Self Control Willpower Upbringing

Book:Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

Source: Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

“. . . 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.”

World Doe Causes Prayer This World Projects Weak Factors Preacher Ministry Powerless

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“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.”

Knows Giving Feels Firsts I Can Shows School Waiting Cities Buddhism Factors Lectures Rama Because I Can

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Kind Wisdom Politics Economy Economic Activity Credit Factors All Kinds Chiefs Proportion Liberalism Units

Book:An Essay on the Restoration of Property

Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property

“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.”

People Doe Wisdom Politics Steps Economy Industry Socialism Factors Finance Chiefs Communism Liberalism Makers Anarchy Excess Captains Captains Of Industry

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.”

Law Politics Natural Wealth Ability Results Moral Economy Economic Equal Rate Factors Liberalism Concentration Vary Economic Freedom Being Equal Concentration Of Wealth

Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy, pay for, and employ in their lives the non-human factor of production, capital.”

Humans Mean Wisdom Today Opportunity Politics Pay Millions Economy Economic Property Productions Factors Liberalism Household Private Property Equality Of Opportunity Factors Of Production

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to acquire ownership of the nonhuman factor of production: capital.”

Mean Wisdom Politics Individual Economy Productions Factors Liberalism Acquire Productive Ownership Enabling Factors Of Production

Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.”

Men Use Wisdom Politics Technology Economy Highest Labor Rate Productions Burden Factors Liberalism Shifting Ingenuity

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be.”

Humans Two Important Wisdom Politics Economy Labor Productions Factors Liberalism Distinction Ownership Free Society Factors Of Production

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Two-factor economics makes it clear that our economic problem is not what one-factor (labor-centric) thinkers assert: an inequitable distribution of income. It is an inequitable distribution of productive power, from which an unworkable distribution of income results.”

Two Problem Wisdom Politics Results Economy Clear Economic Economics Labor Income Factors Liberalism Productive Thinker Distribution Economic Problems

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.”

People Knows Years Shows Felt Lines Wonderful Magic Elements Sticks Rings Factors Right Time Through The Years

Author:America Ferrera

“This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Made Facts Film Differences Boys He Man Factors Relevant

Author:Omar Sharif

“But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.”

Factors Vegetarian

Author:Radha Mitchell

“Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.”

People Success Careers Buddhism Circumstances Determine Factors Visible Dna Rise Above Sociological

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.”

War Causes Religious Atheism Century Worship Regard Constant Various Positive Atheism Factors Wicked Hateful Pious Jerusalem Agitation Infidel Unifying Religious Wars

Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

“Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.”

Way Play Winning Basketball Factors Panic Poise Unselfishness

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“What Is Your WOW Factor? This applies to both the service that you provide to the world and the way you market it. Make it edgy, make it snappy, and make it punchy. Even make it raunchy - but make it different! Real different!”

World Way Different Real Business Factors Wow Edgy

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.”

Depends Balls Distance Golf Clubs Factors Golfers

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes.”

Want Sometimes Moments Happens Guy Technology Customers Factors Employee That Moment Competitors Make It Happen Shareholders Moment Of Truth

Author:Brian Roberts

“You want to know as much information as possible because it helps you make more informed decisions, but that's not always possible. There are a lot of different factors surrounding it.”

Knows Want Different Helping Decision Information Factors

Author:Howard Charles

“As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?”

Audience Asking Factors Filmmaker Wow Impress

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.”

Thinking Film Turns Process Factors Underrated

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.”

People Looks Bigs Deals Scene Factors Presenting Big Picture

Author:Willem Dafoe

“The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.”

Ifs Way Influence Experiments Factors Controlled

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.”

Wells Doe President Sleep Depends Election Factors Awake

Author:Bob Schieffer

“From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.”

Thinking Enough Ability Acting Wonder Magic Movement Shame Tricks Factors Rely Get Away Magician Lighting

Author:David Copperfield

“Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.”

Three Natural Principles Environment Progress Produce Creatures Climate Productions Locals Factors Cosmic Selection Adaptation Inheritance Variation Natural Selection Habitat

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.”

“Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.”

“The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.”

Bigs House Ability Four Shapes Members Perception Climate Factors Senate Lobbyists

Author:Al Gore

“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.”

Firsts Art Possibility Balance Victory Thirds Factors Quantity Fourth Warfare Fifth Art Of War Calculations Logistics Balance Of Power

Author:Sun Tzu

“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.”

Mind Looks May Important Matter Devil Determine Factors Our Thoughts

Author:K.P. Yohannan

“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.”

People Doe Two Whole Sports Mistake Rounds Factors Ireland Laziness Indifferent Interfere Delicacy Socializing Tenants

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“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.”

Humans Duty Intellectual Criticism Appreciation Noble Factors Human Life Distinction Discontent Provocative Emergence

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“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.”

Source: The Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays

“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.”

Littles Actors Audience Theater Court Supreme Factors Appeals Minors Supreme Court Irresponsible Infallible Verdict

Author:Agnes Repplier

“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.”

Helping Environment Factors Hinder

Book:The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

“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.”

People Ifs Persons Deals Roles Support Objects Fairs Critical Factors Nfl Treatment Herds

Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“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.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity