#result

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic beverages #beverages #consumption #created #direct

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#came #during #many #nights #recruiting

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#credited #drudgery #result #seldom #source

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds. ↗

— Mark Webber

#appeared #australia #dad #days #fan

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#between #book #difference #eight #hundred

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cost #cover #divorced #economics #economists

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#back #few #kick #miles #only

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#actions #connect #cultivation #helps #know

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#einstein #few #knowledge #now #philosophers