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• No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

  Mark Twain

  Skulls, Flying, Retail

  Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.58, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

  James Payn

  Risk, Stories, Action

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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

  Jorma Ollila

  Units, Convergence, Millions

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• UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Yield, Mind

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• I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Air, Aviation, Predictions

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• The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.

  Albert J. Nock

  Views, Agreement, Order

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• ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God".

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Spiritual, Men, Ego

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

  Hesiod

  Men, Wrath, Heaven

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• State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

  Roger Scruton

  Hands, People, Goal

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• I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

  Dario Argento

  Friday, Cameras, Able

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• I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.

  Steve Coogan

  Drama, Thinking, People

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.

  Frank Capra

  Photography, Jobs, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Struggle, Writing

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

  Chuck Close

  Littles, Illusion, Made

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• All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Stories, Clean, Shows

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

  Honor Harger

  Technology, Opaque, Digital

  "Learn to look - art and tech demand it" by Honor Harger, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

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• The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all the other computers and devices we use, but a wide array of devices to come.

  Bruce Tognazzini

  Ecosystems, Apples, Use

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• Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners.

  John Scarne

  Secret, Use, Winner

  John Scarne (1990). “Scarne on Cards”, Signet

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• The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

  John Scarne

  Cheating, Men, Gambling

  John Scarne (1980). “Scarne on dice”, Random House Value Pub

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• Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Art, Helping Others

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• It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.

  Lara Pulver

  Done, Sake, Nudity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

  Bob Gill

  Energy, Efficiency, Vicious

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• Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

  John W. Gardner

  Running, Being Yourself, Clever

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• Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

  Baltasar Gracian

  Commitment, Slave, Obligation

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