Quotes About Impact

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

One person with a belief is equal to the foce of 100,000 who have only interests.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in neither case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

But though direct moral teaching does much, indirect does more; and the effect my father produced on my character, did not depend solely on what he said or did with that direct object, but also, and still more, on what manner of man he was.

Every contact leaves a trace.

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried. So I try to stay upbeat.

It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.

there are many ways to interdict the growth of competence, of clear thinking, of forceful purpose, and each is a talking choo-choo in different guise: think of slasher flicks, think of pornography, think of Big Macs or tabloid/network news — each is easy to take, each seemingly an inconsequential time-killer. But ah! The ensemble of them playing their mindless tunes — the Death of a Thousand Cuts!

As redes operacionais causam um grande mal por serem suficientemente parecidas com comunidades reais para criar a expectativa de que serão capazes de lidar com as necessidades sociais e psicológicas dos seus membros.

And it wasn't just oxycodone. Between 1996 and 2007, the DEA had nearly quadrupled the production of hydrocodone, allowed manufacturers to produce almost ten times the amount of fentanyl, and hiked the quota of hydromorphone by four and a half times. Despite its impact on public health, the quota-setting process was conducted in secret.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Thank haven, literally, for the moon," says the economist Susan George. "If it weren't there, supplying the gravity to slow down the earth's rotation, our days would last only about four hours, with constant gale-force winds. Nature doesn't work on the principle that faster is better". Industrial society, unfortunately, does work on that principle. As a consequence, it weighs heavily upon nature.

This book scratches an old itch. Despite being the level of government that is closest to the people and has so much impact on our quality of life, most people don't know too much about how their local governments operate and even less about what it's like to manage a city or county. Occasionally, a city manager character appears in a novel, movie, or TV show but almost always in a mocking or denigrating fashion that belies the professionalism that is more the norm.

Put it all together, and the power of Mont-Blanc's cargo works out to about 3 kilotons of TNT—or about a fifth of the 15 kilotons the "Little Boy" atomic bomb unleashed on Hiroshima.

in World War I, Canada lost 60,000 young men, from a total population of 7 million. If the United States had lost a similar ratio in Vietnam, it wouldn't have lost 58,000 men but 1.7 million—or almost thirty times more.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Nassim Taleb, a statistician, risk analyst, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, calls it the "Lucretius Problem." Named

Were one to try to identify the single most important influence on Markov's destiny—besides Markov himself—it would probably be a toss-up between Mao Zedong and perestroika.

They hit so hard they were both breathless for a moment. Cirocco embraced the smaller woman and lifted her off her feet.

Was she supposed to be impressed? If waste was impressive, she was overwhelmed.