Units Quotes - Page 5

• We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntactical units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.

  John Granger

  Heart, Perfect, Black

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• The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.

  Lee Smolin

  Notebook, Real, Numbers

  Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Father, Believe

  "Denzel Washington ‘The Great Debaters’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. December 24, 2007.

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• Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Moving, Kids

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.

  Miguel Nicolelis

  Two, Brain

  "Rats, thousands of miles apart, communicate through brain link". www.foxnews.com. February 28, 2013.

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• While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.

  Hamid Dabashi

  Islamic, Thinking, Order

  "For the Last Time: Civilizations". International Sociology, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 01, 2001.

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• A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

  Arthur Bloch

  Failure, Finals, Inspection

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

  Vivian Campbell

  Hero, Guitar, Important

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• When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

  Michael Arad

  Army, People, Volunteer

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• I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

  Abigail Breslin

  People, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Looks, Our Society

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

  William E. Gladstone

  Death, Science, Action

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• I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Liz, Lines, Littles

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

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• Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.

  D. V. Ager

  Real, Science, Hands

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• If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Distance, Real, Taken

  "Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime". Book by Charles Coulston Gillispie, p. 240, January 10, 2009.

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• My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sorry, Passion, Jealous

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• If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they must feel and know themselves to be one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Destiny, Humanity, Environmental

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• One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

  Duncan Jones

  Shooting, Levels, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Past, Order, Ideas

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.84, Springer Science & Business Media

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• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Together, Too Much, Sides

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• The bottom line is, as the season goes on, everybody becomes more comfortable. For a quarterback, it's more than just him. It's everybody else doing things. Offense is all about how things work as a unit. It's everybody being comfortable.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Comfort, Goes On, Lines

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• On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day.

  Roman Coppola

  One Day, Directors, Kingdoms

  "Roman Coppola Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM and A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.

  Margaret Chan

  Europe, Toxic, Needs

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• Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

  Michael Behe

  Natural, Select, Arise

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• There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Psychology, Electrical, Appliances

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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