Units Quotes - Page 12

• Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.

  Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

  Political, Wealth, Creation

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• Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

  George Will

  Simple, Improvement, Individual

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

  Murray Rothbard

  Giants, Currency, Raises

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• I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Kids, Eye, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• I went out to Bali, and I cast all of these supporting roles. I love that stuff. I just love actors. And then, Ryan Murphy asked me to direct second unit for him on Eat Pray Love. I was already booked on something else, but I joined them later. And then, I wrote him a thank you email and I got no response. I was like, "Okay, that's it." We didn't interact much on set either.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Email, Roles, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Brain, Fundamentals

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• As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

  Roman Coppola

  Directors, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

  Plato

  Reality, Mind, Vision

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• The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and, as such, transcends every other interest in life.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Important, Interest In Life, Eternity

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• Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ions, Molecules, Atoms

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.165, University of Georgia Press

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• You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Redneck, House

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• There`s a division in most major police departments called, `Special Victims Unit,` which is what sex crimes are euphemistically called. They`re considered the most heinous crimes, when not only do you violate somebody, but you violate them sexually. So it`s an elite squad that takes care of that.

  Richard Belzer

  Sex, Squad, Police

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• Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Race, Independence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

  Herbert Simon

  Organization, Decision, Problem

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• India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Philosophy, India, Mark

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• The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.

  Robert Reich

  Groups, World, Corporations

  Robert B. Reich (2010). “The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalis”, p.81, Vintage

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• The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Suffering, Desire

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• The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium...The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

  Deane Juhan

  Two, Lakes, Brain

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• The assumption that the square of a unit vector
  is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
  quantities are non-associative.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Squares, Unity, Vectors

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• The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Eternity

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• Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Perfect, Switzerland, Levels

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye
  and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating
  units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch
  changes in the narrative-line.

  Diane Wakoski

  Eye, Creating, Add

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• Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

  William James

  Thinking, Pluralism, Form

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• [Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial arts had to be integral to the show. That's what makes it unique, that's what makes it special and different and ground-breaking. No one has attempted this before on American television.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Unique, Two

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I was lucky enough to be successful, I distanced myself completely from the whole thing of units and selling copies. I just wanted to keep everyone who comes to see me happy. I spend so much time after my shows talking to people who come from all over the world to see me. I'll go out and sign a picture and have a chat.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Successful, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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