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• Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.

  John Ratey

  Powerful, Exercise, Profound

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• Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.

  Raymond Berry

  Player, Levels, Nervous

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• If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

  Srikumar Rao

  Team, Organization, Culture

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• Sometimes it's the shortest moments that create the longest impact.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Sometimes, Moments

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• It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

  Learned Hand

  Issues, Judging, Benches

  "The Bill Of Rights". Book by Learned Hand, p. 72, 1958.

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• All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Art, Philosophy, Past

  "The Sleepwalkeers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Numbers, Principles, Weapons

  Margaret Thatcher (2017). “Statecraft”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

  Stacy London

  Real, Light, Clothes

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• For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

  Alex Steffen

  Talking, Cities, Priorities

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• Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

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• Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.

  Julian Assange

  Real, People, Political

  "Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory". Interview with David Kushner, www.motherjones.com. April 6, 2010.

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• If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.

  Clint Eastwood

  Feelings, Analyzing, Remember

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• It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.

  Antonin Artaud

  Space, Giving, Theatre

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• It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.

  Cat Stevens

  Artist, Relief, Done

  "Singer Islam Gets Libel Damages". news.bbc.co.uk. February 15, 2005.

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• I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

  Madison Cawein

  Nature, Roots, Tree

  Madison Julius Cawein, “Penetralia”

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• I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children and that must be stamped out.

  David Cameron

  Children, Childhood, Want

  "The internet and pornography: Prime Minister calls for action". www.gov.uk. July 22, 2013.

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• Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.

  Ann Coulter

  Debate, Enjoy, Irritating

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.81, Crown Forum

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• The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

  Alex Garland

  Powerful, Gun, Years

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• One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.

  Peter Berg

  People, Done, Fascinating

  Source: collider.com

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• We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

  Joel Klein

  Country, United States, May

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• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, People, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You have different people who come into your life and they affect you in a way and leave an impact on you. Whether it's projects or friends or directors, it's just an opportunity that people give me.

  Selena Gomez

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Director Courtney Solomon Talk GETAWAY, Surviving the Stunts, Filming in Bulgaria, Horror in Action and Casting the Voice". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. August 31, 2013.

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• I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Government, People

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• The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Growth, Population

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• The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

  Akio Morita

  Country, Ideas, Quality

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 165), 1986.

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