You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
quote by Frederik Pohl
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In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
quote by Wayne Dyer
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During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
quote by Georg Solti
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Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
quote by Roman Jakobson
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
quote by Norman Borlaug
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In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
quote by Michael Behe
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It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.
quote by Doug Vargas
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I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.
quote by Donal Logue
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A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
quote by Helmut Jahn
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
quote by Matt Gonzalez
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.
quote by Marc Garneau
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
quote by Samuel Alexander
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Always define whatever it is we perceive—to trace its outline—so we can see what it really is: its substance. Stripped bare. As a whole. Unmodified. And to call it by its name—the thing itself and its components, to which it will eventually return.
quote by Marcus Aurelius
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Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.
quote by Leonard Woodcock
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Without Addressing The Presence
War and crediting greed,
Are two components sustained...
That will eventually diminish one's feeding.
But then...
One's delusions kept without addressing,
The presence of truth...
Has always found a way to stay productive.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.
quote by Herman Kahn
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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
quote by Stephen Hawking
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