Lever Quotes
46 Lever quotes by 44 unique authors
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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one…
— Arthur Eddington
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Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has…
— Bruce D. Porter
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In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody,…
— Mark Wahlberg
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If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in…
— Michael Ruhlman
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
— Mikhail Lermontov
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A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.…
— Isaac Babel
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The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
— Simone Weil
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Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It…
— Bill Drayton
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Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no…
— Joseph Conrad
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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in…
— Ayn Rand
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The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy…
— Frederick Soddy
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The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination.
— William Wordsworth
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The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,…
— Christina Stead
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It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it…
— Maria Cantwell
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The pen is the lever that moves the world.
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast,…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning…
— David
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Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never…
— Honore de Balzac
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I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go…
— Tina Fey
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