#device

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.


George Bernard Shaw


#democracy #deserve #device #governed #shall

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.


Karlheinz Stockhausen


#day #devices #every #every day #first

A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.


Cassandra Clare


#clockwork-angel #infernal-devices #jem-carstairs #mizpah #bible

Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went.


Cassandra Clare


#infernal-devices #tessa #will #church

I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten." He looked sideways at Tessa.


Cassandra Clare


#clare #poison #the-infernal-devices #will #death

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.


Cecil Beaton


#chewing #chewing gum #close #device #gum

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.


Ambrose Bierce


#corporation #device #individual #individual responsibility #ingenious

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.


Andrew Coyle Bradley


#always #convenience #deliberately #devices #did

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.


John Zorn


#control #cues #device #everyone #group

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.


Alex Chiu


#device #honestly #i #immortality #inventor