#result

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#enter #local #married #men #politics

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#cheap #corn #designed #efficient #efficient way

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family. ↗

— Ann Robinson

#affect #bad #call #drinking #family

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#area #christian #christian life #first #inward

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. ↗

— Fred Shero

#fire #first #must #result #set

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world. ↗

— Don Was

#fans #greatest #i #longtime #new

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#assumption #been #cause #confirms #event

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#failure #hypothesis #results #science #scientific-method

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf. ↗

— Henry Longhurst

#appropriate #call #god #golf #improve

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#college students #congress #environment #environmentalist #everyone