Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
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.
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
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