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The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization. -- James Cash Penney
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. -- Charles Dickens
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. -- Valerie Solanas
We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus. -- Dustin Hoffman
The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit. -- Albert J. Nock
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. -- John Muir
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration. -- Billy Graham
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. -- Richard P. Feynman
Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit. -- Brian Littrell
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. -- Dick Vitale
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt. -- Salvador Minuchin
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? -- John Muir
Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done. -- Ingvar Kamprad
I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again. -- Oliver P. Smith
Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society. -- Murray Rothbard
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue. -- Chester W. Nimitz
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air. -- Frank Zappa
If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment. -- Narendra Modi
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. -- Noam Chomsky
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely. -- Ludwig von Mises
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation. -- D. V. Ager
I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans. -- Barack Obama
When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials. -- Yoshio Taniguchi
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. -- Philip Gibbs
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort. -- Charles J. Givens
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes. -- Fatos Nano
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student's K-12 experience. -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?' -- Nathan Myhrvold
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units. -- Paul Di Filippo
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units. -- J. Anthony Lukas
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts. -- Henry Mintzberg
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too. -- Jurgen Habermas
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. -- Alvar Aalto
Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery - the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work. -- Virginia Postrel
I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was going to the lions' den. Social services said, 'You've got to go to some sort of school.' -- King Krule
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units. -- Margaret Chan
Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone. -- Tim Cook
I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. -- Robert Mueller
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space. -- John McGahern
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police. -- David Blunkett
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books. -- Jimmy Reid
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. -- John Grisham
We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see. -- Craig Venter
In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. -- Lupe Fiasco
Well, I think the American people have to understand that the Mexican government is committed, in a very substantial way, to eradicating the effect of the impact of the cartels on Mexico. We have - what are called vetted units down there. Units that have been vetted by our law enforcement people there, the people with whom we deal - primarily. -- Eric Holder
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. -- M. C. Escher
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm -- M. C. Escher
Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence. -- Paul Dirac
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation. -- Samuel Smiles
I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week. -- Helen Fielding
Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history. -- John W. Vessey, Jr.
We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006, -- Jorma Ollila
Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units. -- Nido R Qubein
I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. -- Junot Diaz
The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king. -- Ted Sizer
If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor. -- Cleve Jones
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention -- James Arthur Ray
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. -- James Arthur Ray
If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else -- Douglas Wilson
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. -- Claude Bernard
All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women. -- Renee Montagne
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. -- Wilbur Ross
Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units. -- Matthew Hayden
I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever! -- Thomas Menino
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere. -- Adolf Galland
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases. -- Ben Bernanke
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene. -- Young Buck
That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units. -- Thomas Hardy
I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of. -- William Krisel
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light. -- Olaf Stapledon
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it. -- Julius Nyerere
Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell. -- Alanis Morissette
When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units. -- Jill Lepore
Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere. -- Andrew Lansley
This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated. -- Stanley Fish
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality. -- Eric Kandel
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity. -- Mark Tobey
Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures. -- Gyorgy Kepes
Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. -- Eric Hoffer
The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation. -- Victor Ponta
A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. -- Max Beerbohm
Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort. -- Charles J. Givens
Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices. -- Thomas Szasz
Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia. -- Nathan Deal
Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised. -- Tim Field
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina -- Ike Skelton
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina. -- Ike Skelton
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations. -- Arthur Koestler
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways. -- Reggie Watts
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units. -- David Almond
As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit. -- T. H. Watkins
Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units. -- David Almond
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations. -- Mary Parker Follett
Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up. -- L. Sprague de Camp
When I came out of college, shoe companies can identify marketable people, and I think I was identified as someone who could potentially move some units and merchandise. -- Keyshawn Johnson
the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise -- Marianne Moore
The core corporation is ... increasingly a faÃ§ade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world. -- Robert Reich
All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities. -- Charles Hartshorne
Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio. -- Al Jourgensen
By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning. -- Werner Heisenberg
With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles. -- Pat Roberts
I'll be involved more with Adobe overall in terms of our technology direction and the problems we are trying to solve, working across the different business units at Adobe. -- Kevin Lynch
Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned. -- Percy L. Greaves, Jr.
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests. -- Matthew Scully
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme. -- Herbert Simon
The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs. -- Jay Leno
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist. -- Malcolm Wilson
Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire. -- Renee Montagne
Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA. -- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
The presence of Knowledge Based Trust in organizations gives rise to a high level of interpersonal trust amongst their members and creates cohesive units out of a loose bunch of people. -- David Amerland
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests. -- Matthew Scully
I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things. -- Leslie Nielsen
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism. -- Annie Besant
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might -- Charles H. Spurgeon

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