Units Quotes

• Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

  Charles Dickens

  Business, Men, Morality

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• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  Valerie Solanas

  Community, Society, Collections

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  Victor Papanek

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Order is repetition of units.
  Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

  M. C. Escher

  Order, Chaos, Repetition

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• In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, India, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.349, Rajpal & Sons

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• ...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Self Confidence, Pride

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• In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Fullness Of Life, Individuality, Development

  John Stuart Mill (1954). “On Liberty: Representative Government ; The Subjection of Women : Three Essays”

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• Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Mountain, World

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• Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war...it is a large failure.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen on television. I don't look at our show as a basketball show. I look at our show as a sports and entertainment show.

  Kenny Smith

  Basketball, Sports, Thinking

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• Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Mistake, Effectiveness, Efficiency

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.

  John C. Reilly

  Land, Long, Special

  "John C. Reilly: Confessions of a scene-stealer" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.

  James M. Buchanan

  Running, Mean, Creating

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Mean, Gold, Three

  "Gold prices are heading towards $1,000" by Nouriel Roubini, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Ideas, Typical, Form

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• A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wall, Home

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• But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

  Bob Schieffer

  Military, Troops, Literature

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• When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Play, Together

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• Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Work Out, Democracy, Band

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• Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Believe, Men

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

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• Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Player, Dvds, Experience

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

  Fred Wilson

  Strategy, User Experience, Ads

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• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Powerful, One Day, Groups

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Running, People, Shining

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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