#facto

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#decides #dispensable #elegance #factor #failure

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#against #always #been #conditions #factor

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#although #bear #before #broader #built

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#factory #farming #greed #i #landscape

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. ↗

— Seth Godin

#align #because #change #connect #factories

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television. ↗

— Gale Gordon

#anything #assembly #assembly line #been #factory

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#anything #body #could #factor #just

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! ↗

— Thom Gunn

#by the time #certain #change #closet #department

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#came #down #factory #family #food

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. ↗

— Keith Henson

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