Satellites Quotes - Page 7

• I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.

  George Saunders

  Numbers, Phones, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

  Lech Walesa

  Block, Fighting, Phones

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• One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.

  Marq de Villiers

  Thinking, Europe, Rivers

  Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

  Jerome Cady

  England And America, Russia, Enemy

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• The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

  Whittaker Chambers

  West, Communism, Revolt

  "Cold Friday". Book by Whittaker Chambers, p. 315, 1964.

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• It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dog, Cat, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  J. C. Watts

  Community, African American, Television

  "Watts launches African-American channel". Interview with Helena Andrews, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

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• Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.

  Brian Weiss

  Memories, Healing, Eye

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• Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.

  Kerry Washington

  Independent, Differences, Interesting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

  Conor Oberst

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Car

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• We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

  Charles Stanley

  Home, America, Ministry

  Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Space, Interesting

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• If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented.

  Les Paul

  Iraq, Phones, Long

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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Buying Things, Cnn, Humanity

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• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  E. O. Wilson

  Common Sense, Intuition, Earth

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• Let us build a SAARC satellite which we can dedicate to our neighbourhood, as a gift from India.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, India, Neighbourhoods

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• If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Jobs, Stars, Moving

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4045, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.

  Helen Mirren

  Life Lesson, Flower, Sunshine

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• One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Science, Sky

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• The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

  Ray Stevenson

  Advice, Pieces, Given

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• The simple fact is that, since the beginning of this century, the average global temperature has flatlined; indeed, over the past 18 months it has fallen back, and according to the satellite measurements of temperature, it is now basically back at the level it was in 1979, when such measurements started to be taken.

  Peter Lilley

  Taken, Past, Simple

  "Peter Lilley: 'I am a global lukewarmist' and other quotes" by Lauren Niland, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.

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• Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His plans. Had the residents of New Orleans been content to rely on the beneficence of God, they wouldn't have known that a killer hurricane was bearing down upon them until they felt the first gusts of wind on their faces. And yet, as will come as no surprise to you, a poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God.

  Sam Harris

  New Orleans, Wind, Atheism

  Sam Harris (2011). “Letter To A Christian Nation”, p.53, Random House

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• Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe
  What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away
  Planets are small as balls of clay
  Astray into the Milky Way, world's outasight
  Far as the eye can see, not even a satellite
  Now stop and turn around and look
  As you stare in the darkness, your knowledge is took!
  So keep starin' soon you suddenly see a star
  You better follow it, cause it's the R.

  Rakim

  Stars, Rap, Eye

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• Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

  Howard Zinn

  Character, Men, Female

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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