#factor

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

#existence #give #i #i am #indicate

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#christian faith #communication #factor #faith #generic

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated. ↗

— Janet Leigh

#complicated #dream #everything #factory #grew

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. ↗

— Og Mandino

#art #benefactor #better #crown #does

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ↗

— Charles Revson

#drugstore #factory #hope #make #sell

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly). ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#back #dire #drives #factory #goes

...the work of inspection was left to magistrates and clergymen. To the relief of employers, experience showed that magistrates and clergymen had no objection to law-breaking when its purpose was merely the torture of children. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#experience

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world. ↗

— Michael Denton

#biology #factory #id #intelligent-design #irreducible-complexity

This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put. ↗

— Eleanor Brown

#for-sure #money

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#any #change #continuing #decision #dominant