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• Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Profound, Challenges

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• They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

  James Young

  Baby, Survival, Steps

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Self, Hiking

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• I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

  Lee Child

  Fun, Communication, Community

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• After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

  Steven Levitt

  Fun, Winning, Perspective

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

  Chris Hadfield

  Zero, Skills, Oneness

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• How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.

  Andre Bazin

  Years, Innovation, Details

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• I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Years, Long

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• Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Marijuana, Hypocrisy

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• The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Summer, Army, Soldier

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• It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.

  James Cameron

  Animal, Choices, Requirements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  Larry Page

  People, Energy, Groups

  "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.

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• In terms of - my relationship with so many, many young people. I would - I would guess that there are many young people who would come forward. Many more young people who would come forward and say that my methods and - and what I had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. And I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped. There are many that I didn't have - I hardly had any contact with who I have helped in many, many ways.

  Jerry Sandusky

  People, Done, Way

  "Jerry Sandusky: 'I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped'". www.nydailynews.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Successful, Texas

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• Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

  Elizabeth May

  Moving, Climate, Action

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• We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.

  Eban Goodstein

  Years, Decision, Climate

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• We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

  Margaret Beckett

  Children, Worry, Climate

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• First and foremost, I wear what I love. That's what women have to focus on: what makes them happy and what makes them feel comfortable and beautiful. If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.

  Michelle Obama

  Beautiful, Fashion, Fun

  "Michelle Obama Lately" By Noelle Watters, www.foxnews.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Way, My Own

  "Q&A: Jean Paul Gaultier". Interview with Eric Wilson, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. October 26, 2007.

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• It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Character, Upset

  Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”

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• In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness

  Laura Mulvey

  Strong, Erotic, Males

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.19, Springer

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• Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial role. Followers judge leaders. Only if the leaders pass that test do they have any impact. The potential followers, if their judgment is poor, have judged themselves. If the leader takes his or her followers to the goal, to great achievements, it is because the followers were capable of that kind of response.

  Garry Wills

  Goal, Judging, Achievement

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• This years keynote session is a clear reminder that wireless data technology is expanding its reach beyond that of an alternative to wireline telephony. We have gathered an exclusive group of business leaders to share how wireless is being integrated into their companys business strategies and what it means for their bottom lines. The presence of these telecom, media and entertainment giants on our center stage is a great indicator of the impact wireless data has made on countless industries.

  Steve Largent

  Mean, Technology, Media

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• Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

  Jon Krakauer

  Moon, Collective Unconscious, Space

  "Krakauer in Antarctica", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2003.

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• The Energy Bus serves as a force field to ward off any negativity that tries to infiltrate or enter your team or business. It made a big impact on our team. I recommend it highly!

  Mark Richt

  Team, Force Fields, Negativity

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