#factor

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#factor #game #great #how #important

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#factor #grip #makes #master #own

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#energy #factor #flight #fraction #ignored

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

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

#broadcast #community #contemporary #currently #depict

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#force #greatest #life #moral #our

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name. ↗

— Carl Rakosi

#few #foreign #get #i #job

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#controlled #disease #factors #heart #heart disease