Units Quotes - Page 24

• When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

  Jerry Falwell

  Family, Spiritual, Children

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• The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

  Tony Kushner

  Spring, Two, People

  Tony Kushner (1995). “Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer”, p.40, Theatre Communications Group

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• Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

  Brian Littrell

  Couple, Thinking, Stronger

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• For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Different, Use

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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• If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Growth, India

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• Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Spiritual, Women, Civilization

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• A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Country, Garbage Disposal, People

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.8, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.

  Brian Regan

  Sports, Team, Goal

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• Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

  Evan Esar

  Family, Mother, Children

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• There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

  John Muir

  Unity, Yosemite, Fragments

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.84, e-artnow

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• Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

  James Mattis

  Military, Army, Hunting

  "Eve of Battle Speech". The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003.

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• People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Dying, Culture

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Country, Military, Marine

  Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.

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• Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Children, Land, Strange

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Fighting, Together, Viruses

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• I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Community, Membership

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• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Energy

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• Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Nerves, Able, Gains

  "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1980.

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• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Organization, Fists

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• I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

  Oliver P. Smith

  Military, Marine, Army

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• I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Law, Special

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Prayer, Giving Up, Islamic

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• The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

  John Muir

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Philip Hyde, John Muir (1992). “The range of light: photographs”, Gibbs Smith

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