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  • Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. -- Ray Bradbury
  • The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. -- George Orwell
  • Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. -- Janet Frame
  • We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. -- Cecil Rhodes
  • Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. -- Fritz Todt
  • Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades." -- Fritz Todt
  • Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech. -- Hanna Rosin
  • Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech." -- Hanna Rosin
  • Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories burn down. Machinery wears out. Inventories get depleted. Technology becomes obsolete. Brand loyalty is the only sound foundation on which business leaders can build enduring, profitable growth. -- Jim Mullen
  • The house is a factory. -- Dave Eggers
  • Schools are not exam factories for the rat race. -- Johann Lamont
  • I want to make a film about a factory worker. -- Richard Linklater
  • In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope. -- Charles Revson
  • Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories? -- Emo Philips
  • Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973. -- Harvey Fierstein
  • The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. -- Charles Evans Hughes
  • Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? -- Michel Foucault
  • I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think. -- Tony Wilson
  • I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. -- Steven Wright
  • As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors -- Chow Yun-Fat
  • If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans. -- Cary Grant
  • Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change. -- Natalia Vodianova
  • The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. -- Thomas Huxley
  • What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. -- Fay Godwin
  • Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
  • I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear. -- Shailene Woodley
  • The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses. -- Steven Pinker
  • I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy. -- Denzel Washington
  • The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. -- Michael Moore
  • In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. -- Rob Walton
  • I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. -- Richard Wagner
  • Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. -- Paul Stamets
  • The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. -- Warren Bennis
  • When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. -- Billy Joel
  • I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. -- George McGovern
  • Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters. -- James Surowiecki
  • Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. -- Freeman Dyson
  • Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. -- Claude Debussy
  • I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. -- Herschel Walker
  • And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. -- Seth Godin
  • Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories. -- Seth Shostak
  • Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting. -- Paul Hawken
  • Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. -- Grace Slick
  • Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are subjected to unimaginable and torturous confinement in vast factories where they never see the light of day. Agribusiness goes out of its way to make sure you don't see the inside of those factory farms. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence. -- Sebastiao Salgado
  • Our hearts are raging idol factories." -- Stephen Altrogge
  • A love of nature keeps no factories busy." -- Aldous Huxley
  • Schools are not exam factories for the rat race." -- Johann Lamont
  • Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on." -- Siri Hustvedt
  • Before I sold used cars, I sold used horses. Mostly to glue factories." -- Jarod Kintz
  • Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them." -- John Grisham
  • I'm goin past factories. Boxes of metal with people inside. Souls bein ripped apart." -- Ian Ayris
  • The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly." -- Gianni Agnelli
  • The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death." -- James Hansen
  • My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job." -- Ed Bradley
  • In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap." -- Fareed Zakaria
  • We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again." -- James Douglas
  • See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security." -- Ray Bradbury
  • Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body." -- Jean Cocteau
  • Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions." -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people." -- Alberto Fujimori
  • I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear." -- Shailene Woodley
  • Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." -- Ray Bradbury
  • They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires, or else they grew on trees, like money." -- Gary Reilly
  • Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature." -- Yves Behar
  • All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries." -- Teodor Flonta
  • Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?" -- Zainab Salbi
  • In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army." -- Rob Walton
  • I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place." -- Marguerite Gardiner
  • Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans." -- H. L. Mencken
  • Farmers scrape a living out of that cold earth, planting on sheltered slopes facing south, combing the yama for fleece, carding and spinning and weaving the prime wool, selling pelts to the carpet-factories." -- Anonymous
  • Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health." -- Paul Stamets
  • I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products." -- Richard Wagner
  • Buchner proposed that fermentation was carried out by biological catalysts that he named enzymes (from the Greek en zyme, meaning in yeast). He concluded that living cells are chemical factories, in which enzymes manufacture the various products." -- Nick Lane
  • How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans." -- Kamila Shamsie
  • A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology." -- Robert Trout
  • The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and the back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern." -- John Steinbeck
  • I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free." -- G.K. Chesterton
  • Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is." -- Howard Zinn
  • Until we boycott meat, and all other products of animal factories, we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food." -- Peter Singer
  • Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement." -- Scott Ritter
  • Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works." -- Alex Steffen
  • Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease." -- Karel Capek
  • And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect." -- Seth Godin
  • A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others." -- John Stossel
  • They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting rooms and places where the aged and the infirm waited sniffily for the angel of death in front of their television sets." -- John Cheever
  • If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have." -- K. Eric Drexler
  • He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire." -- Leonard Cohen
  • I seem to be allergic to whatever that terrible smell is," said Gateman when the urge to sneeze had finally subsided."What terrible smell?""The air," said GatemanIt smells...different.""That's called oxygen," said Professor BoxleyFreh air. No cars, no buses, no factories; just pure, clean oxygen." -- Cuthbert Soup
  • We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories." -- Cecil Rhodes
  • Meanwhile, we'd been kicked out of school at fifteen and had worked in factories and slaughtered animals for a living, but then we'd made something of ourselves, even though the whole system was against us. So how upset could we be when clever people said we were no good?" -- Ozzy Osbourne
  • And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican." -- Alma Guillermoprieto
  • In the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it." -- G.K. Chesterton
  • The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics." -- Beverley Nichols
  • Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It is performed on the battlefield, in our daily tasks, in the marketplace, the factories, at school, in the offices, and in the halls and corridors of government.... But only when one truly gives of himself and without compulsion." -- James Michael Pratt
  • So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence." -- Sebastiao Salgado
  • Men are idol factories. -- John Calvin
  • A love of nature keeps no factories busy. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots. -- Robert M. Lindner
  • The working class must control the factories and the country -- Alan Woods
  • Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under... -- Deirdre Imus
  • I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them. -- John Grisham
  • We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories. -- Albert Einstein
  • Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeingâ??s profit-making machine, -- Kshama Sawant
  • Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories. -- Mal Fletcher
  • The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. -- Gianni Agnelli
  • The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment -- Kalle Lasn
  • Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere. -- Scott McClellan
  • Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest. -- Frank Fairfield
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