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

  M. C. Escher

  Order, Chaos, Repetition

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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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• Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Growing Up, Couple

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• Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

  Stanislav Grof

  Culture, Earth, Return

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fighting, Israel, People

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2003.

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• Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Mean, Fighting, Fire

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• Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

  Alanis Morissette

  Care, Music Love, I Love Music

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

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• The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

  Alvar Aalto

  Cells, Encounters, Connections

  Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

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• I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

  Robert Mueller

  Fbi Agents, Squad, Police

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• As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

  Janet Napolitano

  Technology, Airports, Deployment

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• I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Government, People

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann Talks Earmarks, Obamacare and Gay Marriage; Sen. Kyl on Debt Talks". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Thinking, White, Southern

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• The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  People, Cost, Assets

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• I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!

  Thomas Menino

  Years, Best Year, Proud

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• Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

  Christopher Meloni

  Crazy, Character, Self

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• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  Gary Neville

  Strong, Disappointment, Mistake

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• I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.

  Guy Lafleur

  Guy, Together, Big Families

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