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• There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

  Masaaki Imai

  Tools, Toyota, Company

  Source: blog.deming.org

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• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Memorable, Winning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Superhero, Able

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.

  Terence McKenna

  Giving, Political, Mind

  "History Ends in Green". Terence McKenna's eight-hour lecture at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1989.

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• The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose only practical vindication is the special calculatory manageability of the ordinary number continuum with its four basic operations.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Numbers, Violence

  "Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science".

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• Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Children, Vaccines, Fever

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• It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Effort, Half, Gains

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• My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated  with them. The ancient prediction that Dzogchen would benefit many during these degenerate times, makes this comprehensive introduction  especially relevant. The authors have made these profound teachings accessible and Beyond Words will be useful to both inexperienced and seasoned readers.

  Tsultrim Allione

  Teacher, Teaching, Perfection

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• The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Apples, Decay, Cider

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Contemplation, Term

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• Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Levels, Different

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• There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.

  Peter Drucker

  Promise, Overcoming, Unbroken

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.36, Routledge

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• There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

  Timothy Leary

  Names, Skins, Technique

  "Leary calls LSD 'sacrament'". The Tech, p. 6, November 08, 1966.

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• Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Choices, Justified, Pregnant

  Carl Friedrich Gauss (1965). “General investigations of curved surfaces”

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• I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.

  Terry Eagleton

  School, Literary Theory, Facts

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• My introduction into Marvel world was Comic-Con 2014 where I really had to take a step back and go, 'What have I walked into? What is this place? It's wild, and there's all these crazy rockstars walking around - who are all older than me, which was really weird. I was like, 'I feel too old to be in a superhero movie,' and they're like 10 years older than me.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Crazy, Years, Superhero

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• It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules.

  Frederick Lenz

  Japan, Years, Practice

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• Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, School, Order

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• Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reduction, Absurdity, Concepts

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• The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Way, Use

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• Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Relative Value, Light

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• The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Real, Mind

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• The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Competition

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