In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication'… — Robert Reischauer Copy Share Image
This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
