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• If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.

  Wes Jackson

  Environmental, Cost, Voiceless

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  Carl Honore

  Airplane, Journey, Lunch

  "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies.

  Michael Pollan

  Ideas, Oil, Tanks

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• The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don't do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds.

  Marc Maron

  Home, Research, Goes On

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.

  Anne Waldman

  Light, Ideas, Sound

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

  Viola Davis

  Successful, Racism, People

  "Shondaland roundtable: Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Kerry Washington go unfiltered". Interview with Melissa Maerz, ew.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

  Reggie Jackson

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

  Robert Altman

  Wise, Love You, Light

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

  Robert Glaser

  Phones, Cisco, Analog

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• But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do the same thing, let them be warned: ELECTRICITY IS VERY DANGEROUS. Never play with old batteries! Never put your plug in a strange socket! And if you are in any doubt about the voltage of the current where you are living, ask a major appliance.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Cute, Thinking, Play

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.

  Al Gore

  Running, Men, Impact

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

  Alan Cohen

  Song, Wall, Trying

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• It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

  Mary Roach

  Believe, Light, Naps

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life experiences?...Of course, while in the tank you won't know that you're there; you'll think that it's all actually happening...Would you plug in?

  Robert Nozick

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

  Andy Barrie

  Morning, Thinking, People

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• Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

  Brian Tracy

  Country, People, Community

  Brian Tracy (2006). “The Psychology of Selling: How to Sell More, Easier, and Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right? Like you can plug a keyboard or a mouse in but that's a trick because the computer thinks the inputs are outputs. That's a programmer trick, basically magic. The key to the future is to make holes that go in too.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Keys, Magic

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• A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.

  Edmund Ware Sinnott

  Teacher, School, College

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• I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had a million guitars in there but I used the Strat & the Les Paul in just about everything. There were a lot of different amp choices, I was working with a pro tools plug-in which is like an amplifier stimulator. The possibilities with something like that are just endless.

  Tracii Guns

  Guitar, Choices, Different

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• Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

  William J. Clinton

  Book, Reading, Gay

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• Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Television, Boring, Christianity

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• You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Grandma, Redneck, Shoes

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• I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

  Laura Gilpin

  Lonely, Santa Fe, Storm

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• Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

  Peter Gabriel

  Spiritual, Art, Soul

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