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• Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Quality, Crafts

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.51, Penguin

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• I see a lot of people dressing very similarly, and I see brands being cool because of their name and because of who wears the brands, but that's always been the case. That's kind of the history of fashion. You know, celebrities wear their clothes and people think these celebrities are cool, and then the clothes become valuable. It gives clothes a commodity factor once a certain individual starts wearing that brand. But do I think there's something wrong? I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  Macklemore

  Fashion, Creativity, Men

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put it in my mouth, even if it doesn't taste good! And I can't stop eating until all the food is gone. It's probably one of the contributing factors as to why I became a drag queen. I can eat whatever I want, because I can just strap myself into a corset!

  Manila Luzon

  Queens, Pigs, Gone

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

  David Luiz

  Fear, Artist, Strange

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• The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Keys, Strategy, Longevity

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• Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions.

  Jonah Berger

  Decision, Mouths, Purchasing

  Twitter post from May 31, 2016

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• Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Principles, Moral

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• We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

  Robbie Robertson

  Needs, Taste, Our Lives

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• Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Favors, Obscenity, Figures

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

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• A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Reason, Should, Force

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

  Alexander Lowen

  Community, Modern Life, Would Be

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• The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Sadism, Essentials

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Order, Ideas

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

  Isaac Asimov

  Love, Tinkering, Quantity

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Lust, Survival

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Soul, Way

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Past, Self

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not - in his mind - undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 134), 1964.

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Strong, Book

  Wyndham Lewis (1939). “Wyndham Lewis the Artist”, p.323, Ardent Media

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• In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Growth, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

  Michael Caine

  Idols, Wife, Auditions

  "Michael Caine meets William Orbit". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Artist, Thinking, Community

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

  Preston Manning

  Religious, Home, Commitment

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

  Carroll Quigley

  Tears, Events, Easy

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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