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«Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.»
«Their comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.»
«In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.»
Author: Gregory Bateson
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«Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!»
Author: Trey Anastasio
(Guitarist, Musician, Singer, Songwriter)
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«In the meantime, on the sly,Something's going on up high.Max has shown some foresight here,For he brought his fishing gear.»
Author: Wilhelm Busch
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«All tr?des, their gear and tackle and trim.»
«For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
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«Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility.»
«As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.»
«There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
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