“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.” FactsCausesInfluenceMediaStudentsAchievementEvidenceMereCurrentsInstructionVehicleNutritionTruckGroceriesStudent Achievement Author:Richard A. Clarke
“The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.” WayWellsSeemsInfluenceEconomicUniqueEvidenceSpeedCyclesUniquenessExpansionModerates Author:Alan Greenspan
“Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.” CountryChurchInfluenceEvidenceTraditionalOur CountryOrthodoxCelebrationEasterBenignOrthodox Church Author:Vladimir Putin
“The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.” ShouldUsedNumbersInfluenceKeysMessagesEvidenceIncreaseCommunicateDramaticVotersTelephonesEmailCollectingBlogging Author:Adam Rickitt
“The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.” BookRealShowsAmericaWealthStudyInfluenceOffersAchievementEvidenceDemocraticCarefulInequalitySupposed To BeAssociationAntidoteScholarshipChorusProdigiousReal Knowledge Author:Robert Kuttner
“We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.” WorldKindEndsSeemsTodayChristianAmericaRememberLyingTurnsFightingChurchReligiousInfluenceCenturySucceedEvidenceConstantPropagandaInsanityOfficialsBe KindYou AgainIncessantlyDefamation Book:THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics Source: THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics
“It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.” WorldWantWellsWantedTermInterestChallengesTechnologyInfluenceThis WorldComputerEvidenceComplexesElectricityAsianCircuitsElectronicsMashups Author:Miles Millar
“Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."” ThinkingArtSelfDesireArtistGrowsGroupsInfluenceDemandArt IsEvidenceEmpowermentStrongerHistoricalIsolationContractsOverwhelmingTemperProficiencyBunk Author:Paul Gauguin
“There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.” InfluenceInternetEvidenceNewspapersCirculation Author:Conrad Black