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• One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Sex, Team

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• The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, Feminism, Pills

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• The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

  Norman Foster

  Dumb, Driving, Architecture

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• Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Television, Journalism, Conflict

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• I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

  Bill Joy

  Running, Thinking, Data

  "Creating One Huge Computer". Interview with Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. July 15, 1998.

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• I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

  Nikola Tesla

  Rays, Motive, Cosmic

  "Brooklyn Eagle" Newspaper, July 10, 1931.

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• There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Moving, Sky, Civilization

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• My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Musical, Virtue, Imitation

  "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book by Sergei Prokofiev, Edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 7, 1960.

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• Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

  Robert Greene

  Character, Identity, Roles

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 1998.

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• We're talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.

  Tim Cook

  Talking, Needs, World

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• Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter,  patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

  Jody Watley

  Laughter, Prayer, Attitude

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• Work is the only device I know of.

  Truman Capote

  Knows

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.22, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of predictions.

  Tim Cook

  Iphone, Ipads, Ipods

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• To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

  Alfred Adler

  Self, Indulge In, Example

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• Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Smart, Games, People

  "Nintendo's Miyamoto Doesn't Want to Make Games for People Who Have Only A 'Passive' Interest In Gaming" by Eddie Makuch, www.gamespot.com. August 27, 2014.

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• The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fool, Safe, Common

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• A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether its on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

  Emmett Shear

  Goal, Laptops, Gamer

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• The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Science, Ipods

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• As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.

  Marc Benioff

  Moving, People, Never Forget

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• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

  Washington Allston

  Lying, Peculiar, Half

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle... Yeah, I have a lot of devices.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Iphone, Ipads, Androids

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• Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

  Gene Robinson

  Passion, Hard Times, Humans

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• I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.

  Julius Genachowski

  Smart, Technology, Iphone

  "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.

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• The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.

  Julius Genachowski

  People, Important, Information

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