Lubrication Quotes

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Trust, Service Culture, Organization

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Culture, Ease, Manners

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• This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.

  Warren Buffett

  Credit, Economy, Wells

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).

  Robert Reischauer

  Transition, Reform, Needs

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• I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

  Gillian Flynn

  Layers, Protection, Liquor

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Years, Turkeys

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• Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moving, People, Together

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• The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

  Edwin Moses

  Track, Important, Joints

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• In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the sparks and diamonds fly. Add to this, the lubrication which music can provide, and you've got a workable literary form. Even when we reach the stars, we'll still be gazing down into the gutter.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Stars, Ideas, Dirt

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Bridges, Oil, Next

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• As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motive, Terror, Deals

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