Influence
The careers many people chose were influenced by their experience and knowledge gained from using the product. Meccano is mentioned in the first chapter of Graham Greene's novel The Power and the Glory.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.”
—Lucy Stone (1818–1893)
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health—congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)