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We've found 21 quotes for 'lifting device' (0.147 seconds):



"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." »John Andrew Holmes 
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." »Elizabeth Harrison 
"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada." » Lorne Bloch 
"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next." »Johathan Edwards 
"The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness." »Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret. 
"The most popular labor-saving device is still money." »Phyllis George 
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." »Dudley Moore 
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw 
"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money." »Franklin P Jones 
"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." »Sir Arthur Helps 
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw 
"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind." »Lois McMaster Bujold 
"The space shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills." »Dana Rohrabacher 
"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." »H.L. Mencken 
"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." »Zig Ziglar 
"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan 
"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf 
"I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding." »Jacques LeBlanc 
"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." »Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons 
"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." »Peter Drucker 
"The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior" »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
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