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• Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Strong, Civilization

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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• Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.13, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  War, Civilization, Law

  "Germany and the next War" by Friedrich von Bernhardi, (Ch. I), 1911.

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• Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

  Ashley Judd

  Spring, Self

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• A comprehensive list of factors brings predictive stability and predictive stability and predictive power.

  Robert Haugen

  Lists, Stability, Comprehensive

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book byRobert Haugen, Chapter 5, Predicting Future Stock Returns with the Expected-Return Factor Model, p. 56, 1999.

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• service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

  Lilian Whiting

  Spiritual, Attitude, Lying

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish” factor).

  Misha Collins

  Long, Hug, Fascination

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• There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

  Tommy Chong

  Able, Nuance, Understand Me

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• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Thinking, Islands, Life And Death

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• While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Names, Profound, Quality

  "Ease of use: a system design challenge" by L.M. Branscomb and J.C. Thomas, IBM Systems Journal. Vol 23.3, September 1984.

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• I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Reality, Next, Rubbish

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• If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.

  Bill Vaughan

  Exercise, Thinking, Blood

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• I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Stuff, Whimsical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  Barbara Corcoran

  War, Home, Winning

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Essentials, Three, Spirit

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• New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

  Landon Donovan

  Motivation, Team, Years

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• So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Thinking, Long

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• I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Moving, Magic Moments, Feelings

  Clifford D. Simak (2011). “Cemetery World”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Frightened, Terrible

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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• I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Mean, Russia

  "Putin speaks out on Ukraine, Crimea and US relations with French media". Interview with Gilles Bouleau and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, www.rt.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.

  Randi Weingarten

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

  Doug Ose

  Determination, Two, Fcc

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• Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

  Tony La Russa

  Comfort

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• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  Harry Bertoia

  Moving, Yield, Appreciate

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• The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  People, Important, Kind

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