Units Quotes - Page 21

• I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

  David R. Ellis

  Break Up, Thinking, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Although the cooking of food presents some unsolved problems, the quick warming of cooked food and the thawing of frozen food both open up some attractive uses. ... There is no important reason why the the housewife of the future should not purchase completely frozen meals at the grocery store just as she buys quick frozen vegetables. With a quick heating, high-frequency unit in her kitchen, food preparation from a pre-cooked, frozen meal becomes a simple matter.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Simple, Vegetables

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• Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will find that they come under four headings: love, money, adventure and religion. It is to some of them that we always owe that big urge which pushes us onward. Men who crush these impulses and settle down to everyday routine are bound to sink into mediocrity. No man is a complete unit of himself; he needs the contact, the stimulus and the driving power which is generated by his contact with other men, their ideas, and constantly changing scenes.

  Edward S. Jordan

  Love, Crush, Adventure

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Cells, Body

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1959). “The family: its function and destiny”

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.

  Linda Gordon

  Fighting, People, Together

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• A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Couple, Moving

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Honor, Factories

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• Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Type, Reduction, Categories

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

  Guillermo del Toro

  Movie, Thinking, Needs

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• Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

  Aristotle

  Movement, Time Management, Management

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• The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political “rights”) warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home.

  Herbert Read

  Military, War, Home

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• Selling five million units in less than 14 months means DS is the fastest among any game machines ever launched in Japan to hit that level. To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all.

  Satoru Iwata

  Mean, Player, Japan

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• Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

  James G. Watt

  America, Government, Work Ethic

  U.S. News and World Report, November 11, 1985.

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• Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Life, Equality, Men

  Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”

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• In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

  George Ayittey

  West, Economic, Individual

  "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

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• We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006.

  Jorma Ollila

  Convergence, Devices, Millions

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• When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;… so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.

  Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

  Numbers, People, Limits

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• Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

  Mike Mentzer

  Men, Mind, Body

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• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Men, Civilization, Years

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• I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

  Neil Young

  Song, Design, Needs

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• I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in civilian life, and not so easy to define as war.

  W. Eugene Smith

  War, Believe, Race

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• I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

  Gunter Grass

  Years, Volunteer, Criminals

  "A life in writing: Günter Grass" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

  Eric Kandel

  Individuality, Nervous, Plasticity

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