Quotes about appliance

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Quotes about appliance

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“For every person who perishes from the effects of a stimulant, at least a thousand die from the consequences of drinking impure water. This precious fluid, which daily infuses new life into us, is likewise the chief vehicle through which disease and death enter our bodies. The germs of destruction it conveys are enemies all the more terrible as they perform their fatal work unperceived. They seal our doom while we live and enjoy. The majority of people are so ignorant or careless in drinking water, and the consequences of this are so disastrous, that a philanthropist can scarcely use his efforts better than by endeavoring to enlighten those who are thus injuring themselves. By systematic purification and sterilization of the drinking water the human mass would be very considerably increased. It should be made a rigid rule which might be enforced by law to boil or to sterilize otherwise the drinking water in every household and public place. The mere filtering does not afford sufficient security against infection. All ice for internal uses should be artificially prepared from water thoroughly sterilized. The importance of eliminating germs of disease from the city water is generally recognized, but little is being done to improve the existing conditions, as no satisfactory method of sterilizing great quantities of water has yet been brought forward. By improved electrical appliances we are now enabled to produce ozone cheaply and in large amounts, and this ideal disinfectant seems to offer a happy solution of the important question.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (1900)

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“Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs, and many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.”

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World (1987)
As quoted in TIME magazine (4 January 1988)
1980s
Variant: Soviet rockets can find Halley's comet and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but . . . many household appliances are of poor quality.

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“You know, I've got one of these wonderful ideas that women should all be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.”

Bernie Ecclestone (1930) British business magnate

Bernie Ecclestone, discussing Danica Patrick, the female driver who finished fourth in the 2005 Indianapolis 500 race. (Los Angeles Times, 6/21/05, p. A-18.)

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“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.”

Harriet Van Horne (1920–1998) American journalist

Women Know Everything! http://books.google.com/books?id=nTKgWEBhBeoC&pg=PA429&lpg=PA429&dq=There+are+days+when+any+electrical+appliance+in+the+house,+including+the+vacuum+cleaner,+offers+more+entertainment+than+the+TV+set.&source=web&ots=OgBpFo7CWB&sig=ngxgVw4am7DRU0wMlhh9DCs3N7k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result by Karen Weekes, published by Quirk Books, 2007

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“Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: The Doctrine of the Mean

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“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”

John Tenniel (1820–1914) British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist

Refusing to illustrate a proposed chapter in Through the Looking-Glass, as quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 146

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“[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.”

Trip Hawkins (1953) American businessman

Quoted in The Amazing PlayStation 2, Newsweek (via PR Newswire), 2006-02-26, 2007-01-21 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2000/0001150833&EDATE,

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“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.”

Maurice Strong (1929–2015) Canadian businessman

Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit But this quotation is not in the version posted on Mr. Strong's site. http://www.mauricestrong.net/index.php/opening-statement6

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“Civilization without its appliances is weaker than barbarism.”

The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests (1863), ch. ix: Via Mala.

“There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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“Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

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