“ Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. ”
- Saul Alinsky- Copy
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“ One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. ”
- Ellen Goodman- Copy
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“ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man without trials. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ The railroad is sprung from the application of two fundamental ideas - one the use of a mechanical means of developing speed, the other the use of a smooth running surface to diminish friction. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. ”
- A. Bartlett Giamatti- Copy
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“ The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war… War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome appartions. ”
- Karl von Clausewitz- Copy
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“ Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war. ”
- Karl von Clausewitz- Copy
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“ Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ”
- Clare Booth Luce- Copy
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“ It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ”
- Frances Willard- Copy
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“ The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ”
- Frances Willard- Copy
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“ Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. ”
- Hans Hofmann- Copy
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“ Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively. ”
- Roger Bannister- Copy
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