Devices Quotes - Page 5

• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Men, Games

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• A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

  Norm MacDonald

  Practice, Rivals, Merit

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• Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Sex, Women

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• In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.

  Steven Chu

  Summer, Mother, Moving

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• I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.

  Steve Jobs

  Television, Would Be, Use

  "Next up for Apple, it's iTV - the television that will respond when you shout at it" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Children, Acting, Adults

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Government, People, Office

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• I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."

  Mindy Kaling

  Shopping, Sweaters, Office

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• It's a crazy time right now with kids. They are so much, more savvy than even their parents are. They are handing down their devices to their parents. They are giving their parents the old iPad in exchange for the new one. It's a whole different world nowadays and they are in control and in charge of technology. It's scary but at the same time it's exciting. There are a lot of choices for them.

  Tyra Banks

  Crazy, Kids, Technology

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

  Neil Postman

  Revolution, Computer, Nonsense

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.156, Vintage

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• Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

  Natalie Portman

  Mean, Shoes, New Experiences

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  New Beginnings, Past, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.2, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

  Gerard Cox

  Intellectual, Mask, Concepts

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• Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, People, Worry

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

  Anne Sweeney

  People, Research, Television

  "Disney's Anne Sweeney Discusses Changing Role of ABC, Hulu, YouTube, Mobile Video Growth" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 28, 2012.

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• It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Average, Law

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• Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

  Steve Ballmer

  Television, Internet, Wireless

  "Ballmer: Microsoft wants to be in your phone" by Douglas F. Gray and James Niccolai, www.cnn.com. March 22, 2001.

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• Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.

  William Stringfellow

  Memories, Blessed, Taken

  William Stringfellow (2005). “A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Sunday, Pigs

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• I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blessing, Simple, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

  Dave Barry

  Exactly Is, Data, Ducks

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

  Doug Larson

  Memories, Ruts, Nostalgia

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• Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Teamwork, Years, Track

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

  Jacques LeBlanc

  Funny, Stupid, History

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• Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Science, Technology, People

  "FAQs: Why and Whither for Ubuntu?". wiki.ubuntu.com.

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