quotes about Levers
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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 takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.
-- Arthur Eddington -
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 a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.
-- Ayn Rand -
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, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon
-- D. J. MacHaleSource : D.J. MacHale (2007). “The Lost City of Faar”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
-- Daniel Webster -
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
-- Edward Abbey -
Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
-- Emma BullSource : Emma Bull (2009). “Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles”, p.22, Macmillan
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.
-- Isaac Marion -
Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.
-- Jacques Ellul -
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, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.
-- Mark Wahlberg -
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
-- Nandan Nilekani -
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
-- Pete du Pont -
Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?
-- Rush Limbaugh -
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I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.
-- Steve Ells -
The pen is the lever that moves the world.
-- Thomas De Witt TalmageSource : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1870). “Crumbs Swept Up”, p.256
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
-- Vernor Vinge