Units Quotes - Page 11

• As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

  T. H. Watkins

  Nature, Land, Safety

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• I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.

  Julian Critchley

  Availability, Impact, Drug

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• When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Kings, Children, Believe

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• As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

  Leroy Cronin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Frustrated

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• How you feel like a unit, you feel like a team together. There's something about being married that just unites that and just bonds you. I think it does mean something, and it does feel different. Kanye has always treated me like we were that team from day one, but I've seen a change in him as a dad. He's really softened up since he's become a dad.

  Kim Kardashian

  Dad, Team, Mean

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• Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Practice, Fast Food

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• Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

  David Halberstam

  Fear, Brave, Secret

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• The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Attitude, Civilization, Culture

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• When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousness and the collective energy of the group from which power comes. The principal driving force that lies before us is that we have to recognize the nature of community as the evolutionary step that we just took a step backwards from in the last century.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Lying, Community, Energy

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• The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

  Ted Sizer

  Kings, Educational, School

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• The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.

  Don Davis

  Body, May, Damage

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• The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it’s not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that’s not your problem either.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Kids, Doors

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.224, Soft Skull Press

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• I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

  Elaine Paige

  Trust, Support, Disease

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• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  Ralph Bakshi

  Looks, Done, Animation

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, ‘It’s okay, just remember we had such a good day, our wedding was so perfect,’ you know, because we’re such a unit together. He made me feel such a part of the day on April 29th.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Girl, Wedding, Morning

  "Sarah Ferguson On Not Being Invited To Royal Wedding: I Felt ‘Totally Worthless'" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.

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• You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

  Nick Bantock

  Art, Together, Spirituality

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• The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

  Ashley Montagu

  Systematic, Mental Illness, Institutions

  "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",

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• If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Social, Company

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• The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Dna, Groups, Acid

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• Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Moving, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.17, editionNEXT.com

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• Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Block, Agency, Organization

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• The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Country

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• By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Division, Fundamentals

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• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

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• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Oil, America, Environmental

  "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

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