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“For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.”

World Spirit Culture Force Growth Natural Clear Influence Modern Source Victory Aspect Supreme Permanent Islamic Modern World Genesis Distinctive Natural Science Islamic Culture

Author:Robert Briffault

“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”

Source: The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892

“It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.”

“Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.”

Ifs World Book Different Inspiration Reading Influence Source Visuals Sensibility

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.”

“Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.”

Mind Wells Body Influence Source Elements Currents Well Being Streams Our Thoughts Mind And Body Sensei

Author:H. E Davey

“Near beliefs are to blame for a new brand of Christianity that is epidemic in our homes and churches-a faith that has little flavor, little light and little influence. When near beliefs are our only source of motivation, tough stands are never taken, feathers are never ruffled, and absolutes are held very loosely.”

Littles Home Light Motivation Belief Church Christianity Taken Influence Source Tough Absolutes Blame Brands Flavor Feathers Epidemics

Author:Dennis Rainey

“Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.”

Humans Two Facts Feelings Influence Source Spring Ultimate Two Things Fund Wilderness

Author:Benton MacKaye

“Chocolate is an extraordinary source of key stress-fighting minerals including: magnesium, iron, chromium, vanadium, copper, zinc, manganese, and phosphorus. These minerals favorably influence a woman's hormone system, which explains why chocolate has always been considered important for a woman's monthly cycle.”

Important Fighting Influence Source Keys Stress Extraordinary Including Iron Cycles Chocolate Hormones Minerals Copper Magnesium Phosphorus Zinc Chromium

Author:David Wolfe

“There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.”

States Desire Influence Materials Source Advantage Etc Territory Spheres Capitalist Cheated Raw Materials Sphere Of Influence

Author:Joseph Stalin

“I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mean I Can Done Play Influence Source Critics Greek Analysts Adapting Brecht Oedipus

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I do believe that if you reach a just and fair settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians it will have a massive influence on countering extremism. Which is not to say that the Israel-Palestinian situation is the source of the problem, but it is very potent fuel.”

Ifs Believe Problem Situation Influence Source Fairs Israel Fuel Massive Palestinian Extremism Settlement

Author:Tony Blair

“Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.”

Firsts Bigs Social Records Influence Source Importance Pops Aesthetic Bob Sixty Dylan Pop Music Sellers Unpredictability

Author:Jon Landau

“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder