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Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

Taiichi Ohno

Risk, Management, Should

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In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

David F. Houston

Country, Sweet, Animal

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The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

B. F. Skinner

Education, Achievement, Sound

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It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.

Lev Manovich

Names, Design, Special

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I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.

Brian J. White

Jobs, Weekend, Creative

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As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Karl Marx

Men, Hands, Brain

"Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production".

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This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

Daniel Yergin

War, Loss, Aggravation

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That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

Paul Hawken

Age, Information, Transformation

"The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

Robert Solow

Two, Three, Als

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Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

Ella Reeve Bloor

Hands, Tools, Fruit

Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

Brian Tracy

Intellectual, Valuable, Factors Of Production

Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.19, Jaico Publishing House

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If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

John Kenneth Galbraith

Country, Deterioration, Use

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...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system

Richard Heinberg

Oil, America, Events

Richard Heinberg (2010). “Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines”, p.48, New Society Publishers

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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

Artist, Hands, Eras

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Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production.

Daniel Gilbert

Happiness, Stress, Yoga

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The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

Jerry Brown

Opportunity, People, Giving

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The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge Workers, Century, Assets

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Art, Practice, Differences

Ursula K. Le Guin (2018). “Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.441, Hachette UK

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The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

John Philip Sousa

Alaska, Average, Lovers

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The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

Russell Kirk

Communication, Character, Men

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What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Mean, Our Generation, People

"The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.

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The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

Technology, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

Friedrich Engels

Mean, Order, Class

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2014). “The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

Clara Zetkin

Women, Machines, Modern

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Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

Art, Soul, Improvement

Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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