Impact Quotes - Page 15

• The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

  Michael A. Hess

  Lying, Ideas, Everyday

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• The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Country, Fall, Water

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• There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.

  D. James Baker

  Men, Issues, Law

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• Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  War, Hands, Civilization

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• It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Political, Historical, Revolution

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.148, Verso

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• If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Struggle, Practice, Two

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• Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

  GZA

  Hip Hop, Black, Energy

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• You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Distance, Epic, Discipleship

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• Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

  David Allen

  Motivation, Done, Strategic

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

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• Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  Larry Page

  Motivation, People, Groups

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• CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.

  Amy Ridenour

  Adoption, Environmental, Cafes

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• Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

  Will Steffen

  Ecosystems, Climate, Landscape

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• Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .

  Bill Ford

  Inspiring, People, Quality

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• You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country... That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Country, Real, Numbers

  "ABC Paints Obama as Victim, Stephanopoulos Echoes Emanuel on Greatest Success". www.newsbusters.org. April 29, 2009.

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• For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

  Willow Bay

  Friends, Speak Less, Maximum

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• Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Long, Environmental

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• Companies that understand their links with the communities they operate in, and their impact on the environment, are most likely to prosper in the long-term

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Business, Long, Community

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• However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence of centuries. It is easy to picture to oneself the effects of this impact upon the Earth. The axis and the motion of rotation changed; the seas abandoning their old position to throw themselves toward the new equator; a large part of men and animals drowned in this universal deluge, or destroyed by the violent tremor imparted to the terrestrial globe.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Animal, Men

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• From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

  George Lucas

  Teacher, College, Effort

  "Celebrating Unsung Heroes in Education" by George Lucas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.

  Perry Anderson

  Criticism, Orientalism, World

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• The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome. Articulating and documenting what many feel, and empowering them into action, the book will have an impact on entrenched US empire elites unwilling and unable to take it on. Votes of thanks to Ahmed, and to Interlink!

  Johan Galtung

  Book, Empowering, Research

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• We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

  Tony Fadell

  Home, Thoughtful, Simple

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• Being listed by Facebook was like being recognized by a global economic superpower. It has enormous impact.

  Hashim Thaci

  Economic, Enormous, Superpower

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• When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not.

  J.P. Moreland

  People, Decision, Choices

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• Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

  Marvin Kalb

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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