#industrial

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#appendage #assembly #came #criticisms #five

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#because #broke #economy #entire #industrial

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. ↗

— George H. White

#accuser #avenue #closes #hard #idleness

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#co-operation #company #employees #even #industrial

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#clash #clearly #goods #happens #i

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#could #countries #day #four #industrial

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#aroused #diseases #experience #industrial #interest

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#better #biggest #both #britain #each

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#good #industrial #industrial revolution #introduction #nutritionally

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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