Equipment Quotes - Page 6

• I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Basketball, Football, Player

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.164, Ballantine Books

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• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Long, Important

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• Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Thinking, Journey, Hiking

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.117, Knopf

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• Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Average, Years

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Running, Spiritual

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.29, BookBaby

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• The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Sports, Order

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film.  Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic colors and your images will stir the soul.

  Jack Dykinga

  Unique, Light, Color

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• Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Song, Inspiration, Ambition

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• I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

  Thomas Keller

  Want, Environment, Certain

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.

  Jol Dantzig

  Believe, Most Amazing, Made

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• The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

  Pete Townshend

  Cost, Rock N Roll, Pounds

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• We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

  Dick Cheney

  Order, Weapons, Needs

  "Threat by Iraq Grows, U.S. Says" by Robin Wright, articles.latimes.com. September 09, 2002.

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• The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambition, Men, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

  Regis Philbin

  Inspirational, Basketball, New York

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• Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

  Rudy Rucker

  Spring, Stupid, Thinking

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, turingchurch.com. August 2002.

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• One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

  Ansel Adams

  Important, Pieces, Want

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• We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Incentives, Normal, Investment

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.88, Best Books on

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• A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

  Darin Strauss

  Player, Guy, Tragedy

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.9, Random House

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• But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune in electrical and electronic equipment. We had no fancy equipment and did not miss it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Children, Fun, Years

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• The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Women, Differences, People

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• By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

  Amory Lovins

  Design, Cost, Energy

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• I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.

  Billy Graham

  Running, Spiritual, Horse

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• On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.

  Robert S. Beecroft

  Military, War, Struggle

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• The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.

  Nick Kelsh

  Photography, Enjoy

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