#facto

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#basis #comprise #doer #factors #knower

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#entry #factor #fear #harmed #into

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#decisive #explained #factor #i #like

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#factor #finding #general #hundreds #just

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors. ↗

— Major Taylor

#champion #condition #confidence #essential #factors

I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#back #being #door #factory #front

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#capita #capital #comes #deepening #economic

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#corn #cows #factory-farms #food #industry

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory. ↗

— Jeffrey Hunter

#far #had #long #long distance #parents

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#factory-farming #meat #science #veganism #vegetarianism