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• Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

  Shirley Manson

  Feelings, Appearance, Integrating

  "New Again: Garbage". Interview with Paige Powell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2012.

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• In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Convenience, Effects

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• First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

  Otto Hahn

  Lying, Dying Slowly, Breathing

  Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

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• The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Numbers, Succeed, Chemicals

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

  Claire Danes

  Being Alone, Thinking, Imagination

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  H. G. Wells

  Engineering, Bridges, Iron

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hilarious, Single

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Phones, Important, Information

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• Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

  Donald A. Norman

  Information, Available

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• Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Children, Home, Office

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• I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mulligans, Mess, Fascinated

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Writing, Defining, Language

  'Thinking in Primitive Communities' in Hoyer (ed.) 'New Directions in the Study of Language' 1964

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• Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, Women, Science

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

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• Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

  Carol P. Christ

  Males, Doe, Pronouns

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• Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Use, Information, Should

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

  Nathaniel Parker

  Work, May, Graves

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• Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

  Antony Jay

  Responsibility, Decision, Matter

  Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

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• IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Responsibility, Use, Kind

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• There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

  Michael Moore

  People, Sides, Gullible

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”, ePenguin

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• Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Desire, Liberty, Citizens

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1970). “Toward a national urban policy”

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• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

  Dean Kamen

  Life, Change, Work

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• You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Change, Thinking, Giving

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• Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Looks, Calling, Goes On

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• And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Special, Sound, Firsts

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