Units Quotes - Page 9

• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Men, Civilization, Years

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• I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in civilian life, and not so easy to define as war.

  W. Eugene Smith

  War, Believe, Race

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• I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

  Gunter Grass

  Years, Volunteer, Criminals

  "A life in writing: Günter Grass" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

  Eric Kandel

  Individuality, Nervous, Plasticity

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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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• I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

  Martin Fowler

  Writing, Tests, Bugs

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• Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

  Eric Ries

  Quality Goods, Progress, Soil

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• Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

  Eric Ries

  Progress, Essentials

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• Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

  Mike Mentzer

  Men, Mind, Body

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• When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;… so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.

  Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

  Numbers, People, Limits

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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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• We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006.

  Jorma Ollila

  Convergence, Devices, Millions

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.

  Linda Gordon

  Fighting, People, Together

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• Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Cells, Body

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1959). “The family: its function and destiny”

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

  David R. Ellis

  Break Up, Thinking, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers. I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Meaningful, Encouragement, Jobs

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• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  Young Buck

  Moving On, Opportunity, Moved On

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• If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Religious, Real, Thinking

  Straits Times, September 19, 1999.

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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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• In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

  George Ayittey

  West, Economic, Individual

  "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Defeated

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Caught, Force

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• To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Honor, Factories

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• Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Type, Reduction, Categories

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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