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• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Tanks, Exaggerating

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• In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

  Dan Simmons

  Grease, Meat, Foam

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.254, Spectra

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• I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ideas, Imagination, Fans

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The Brotherhood was strong, a unit. a powerful force in their world for good. And so too were the females. Strong. A unit. A powerful force for good in their world.

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Powerful, Brotherhood

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• I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

  Junot Diaz

  Lying, Book, Three

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Church, Fundamentals, Eternal Life

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• Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

  Charles J. Givens

  Inspirational, Success, Effort

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• The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Family, Women, Play

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• I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

  John Grisham

  People, Locks, Favors

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• The power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I would've no doubt accepted it and it would've destroyed me from the inside out." "Before you," she whispered, "I was shut up inside my heart, protecting it from harm, and never knowing the glory I missed." She linked her hand in his. "You and I, we're a unit. I dare any evil on this earth to tear us apart.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Knowing, Cells

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• In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Lying, Faces, Introduction

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

  Herbert Read

  Independent, Personality, Individual

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Perfect, Together, Titles

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  School, Numbers, Wrong Number

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

  Terry Pratchett

  New York, Light, Green

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 282), October 2008.

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• Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Doe, Study, Because I Can

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.

  Neal Stephenson

  Gps, Ideas, Two

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.179, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

  Robert Musil

  Numbers, Add, Brilliant

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Jobs, Hate, Mean

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• In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Cities, People, House

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• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Planning, Management, Projects

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Performing

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