Quotes with device

  • The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
  • Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
  • A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

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  • Antony Jay 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Alexandre Dumas père All for one, one for all, that is our device.
    The Three Musketeers
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Andrew Vachss Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. Kevin Turner For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • P. D. James I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspaper: A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • B. Kevin Turner Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aldous Huxley The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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