Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. Said with reference to the lever.
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. Said with reference to the lever.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that Netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Giving permanent normal trade relations to the government of China will destroy an important lever that we now have and we have had to influence Chinese behavior, ... We are tossing it aside.
This is a leveraged buyout play. The investors' goal was to milk the thing, lever the baby up and take it public so they can focus on their next deal.
... that powerful lever, the human touch ...
There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition systems of the brain - just because we're coming to understand more about the temptation systems.
The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Ideas are precious. An idea is the only lever which moves the world.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
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