Quotes About Impact

During the course of the epidemic, 47 percent of all deaths in the United States, nearly half of all those who died from all causes combined—from cancer, from heart disease, from stroke, from tuberculosis, from accidents, from suicide, from murder, and from all other causes—resulted from influenza and its complications. And it killed enough to depress the average life expectancy in the United States by more than ten years.

The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

Today's world population is 6.3 billion. To give a sense of the impact in today's world of the 1918 pandemic, one has to adjust for population. If one uses the lowest estimate of deaths—the 21 million figure—that means a comparable figure today would be 73 million dead. The higher estimates translate into between 175 and 350 million dead.

Of developed countries, Italy suffered the worst, losing approximately 1 percent of its total population.

It now seemed as if there had never been life before the epidemic. The disease informed every action of every person in the city.

Public health measures lack the drama of pulling someone back from the edge of death, but they save lives by the millions.

Even where fear closed down businesses, where both store owners and customers refused to stand face-to-face and left orders on sidewalks, there was still too much interaction to break the chain of infection. The virus was too efficient, too explosive, too good at what it did. In the end the virus did its will around the world.

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was not a coincidence that the two men who had the greatest impact on the shape of today's personal computer were among the earliest to fully comprehend the impact of the exponential scaling of microelectronic circuits.

religious experience, inspiring the same kinds of passion that Vannevar Bush's Memex article had given rise to for Engelbart twenty-three years earlier. Computing was just beginning to have an impact on society.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.