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  • We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor. -- Barney Ross
  • I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular. -- David Neeleman
  • Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. -- Alan Shepard
  • Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. -- Stephen Gardiner
  • There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks. -- Jan Chipchase
  • The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. -- Robert Smithson
  • Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. -- Barbara Tuchman
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  • Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce. -- S. Jay Olshansky
  • We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. -- Jack Adams
  • Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers. -- Sam Altman
  • They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world. -- Robert Toombs
  • In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe. -- Niki Lauda
  • Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. -- Shirin Ebadi
  • An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. -- Henry Morton Stanley
  • Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers. -- Barney Ross
  • I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough. -- Eugene Cernan
  • These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us. -- Karen Thompson Walker
  • Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas. -- Vint Cerf
  • Lamentably, alien audiences may be frustrated by the switch to digital television. That's because the transmitter power for DTV is fairly evenly spread across the spectrum. The spikiness is gone, and from afar, the attention-grabbing squeals of analog television's carriers have been replaced by DTV's smooth, low hiss. -- Seth Shostak
  • WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware. -- Peter Diamandis
  • In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it. -- Annie Jacobsen
  • Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts. -- Paul Johnson
  • I know something about aircraft carriers for real. -- John F. Kerry
  • Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print. -- Barbara Tuchman
  • Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts. -- Jeannine Parvati Baker
  • After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers. -- Martha Gellhorn
  • The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer. -- Caroline Myss
  • America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. -- Robin Sloan
  • Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers. -- Jonathan Maberry
  • Scripture states that it is the people of darkness who are supposed to be afraid of us, the carriers of light. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame. -- Alan Rusbridger
  • We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity -- Peter Lisagor
  • Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars? -- Hunter Lovins
  • We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety -- Joshua L. Liebman
  • According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean. -- Nick Hancock
  • I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Airport Cars UK are always helpful and on time when we go on holiday. They have also done themselves proud with the executive people carriers at my sister-in-law's wedding -- Shane Richie
  • Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease. -- Storm Jameson
  • And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. -- David Sedaris
  • They [China] have indicated that they're trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat. -- Herman Cain
  • Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency. -- Dave Barry
  • This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying "Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases." -- Jeremy Clarkson
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