Quotes about gear
A collection of quotes on the topic of gear, likeness, time, timing.
Quotes about gear

Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (15 May 1952), published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206, much of this was used in speeches of 1951, as quoted in The Twenty-year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower (1954) by Chesly Manly, p. 3, and Total Insecurity : The Myth Of American Omnipotence (2004) by Carol Brightman, p. 182<!--
Context: It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war.

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

The Quest for a True Humanity
I Write What I Like (1978)

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)

<p>À dolorosa luz das grandes lâmpadas eléctricas da fábrica
Tenho febre e escrevo.
Escrevo rangendo os dentes, fera para a beleza disto,
Para a beleza disto totalmente desconhecida dos antigos.</p><p>Ó rodas, ó engrenagens, r-r-r-r-r-r-r eterno!
Forte espasmo retido dos maquinismos em fúria!
Em fúria fora e dentro de mim,
Por todos os meus nervos dissecados fora,
Por todas as papilas fora de tudo com que eu sinto!
Tenho os lábios secos, ó grandes ruídos modernos,
De vos ouvir demasiadamente de perto,
E arde-me a cabeça de vos querer cantar com um excesso
De expressão de todas as minhas sensações,
Com um excesso contemporâneo de vós, ó máquinas!</p>
Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), Ode Triunfal ["Triumphal Ode"] (1914), in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2006)
“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”

“Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”
Variant: ... that was what kept the world interesting... reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
Source: Goliath
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

"The Fulfillment of Man"
The Conduct Of Life (1951)

Top Gear, 2 November 2008; as quoted in "Clarkson joke sparks complaints" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7707641.stm, BBC News, 4 November 2008
Top Gear

Speech to the Stretford Young Conservatives (21 January 1977), from A Nation or No Nation? Six Years in British Politics (Elliot Right Way Books, 1977), pp. 168-171
1970s

"Gang of Gin" (never released owing to threats of legal action by pop mogul Alan McGee)
Lyrics and poetry

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation, pp. 81-82

May 2009, latest news
Oasis (band)
“The whirling gears of progress have put the gear makers out of work.”
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 7, On The Teeth Of Wheels, p. 139

Refering to British diver Vern Unsworth, who participated in the Tham Luang cave rescue. As quoted in Elon Musk calls British diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys 'pedo guy' in Twitter outburst https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thai-cave-rescue-elon-musk-british-diver-vern-unsworth-twitter-pedo-a8448366.html (15 July 2018) by Eleanor Busby, The Independent.

"Written aboard HMS Engadine in 1916, cited in " The Riddle Of Erskine Childers " By Andrew Boyle , Hutchinson, London, (1977), pg. 205.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918)

During an episode of Question Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etg5lm92Io8, 18 September, 2008
1940s, The Question – What is your Hope' (c. 1940s)
Source: Depersonalization, (1970), p. 171
“My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.”
One-liners

“The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.”
Source: World Commodities and World Currencies (1944), Chapter III, The Paradox of the Stockpile, p. 23
My Twisted World (2014), Pastimes

Foreword to The Art of Metal Gear Solid V, Dark Horse Comics, 2016, p. 7 https://books.google.it/books?id=BerxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7.
The State of Democratic Theory (2003), Chapter 5. Democracy and Distribution.

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Four, p. 83
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 49

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 172

In the article 'What I know about women...' in Observer Women's Magazine (February 2007)

Bande Mataram, 1907
India's Rebirth

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 17

2010s
Interview with Left Voice (2017)

Dijkstra (1968) " A Case against the GO TO Statement http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF" cited in: Bill Curtis (1981) Tutorial, human factors in software development. p. 109.
1960s
Daniel Martin (1977)
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 1, Clock Of Ages, p. 7
Source: Generation of Vipers (1942), p. 116
although others saw in it the rule of accountants
Chris Hendry and Andrew Pettigrew. "Human resource management: an agenda for the 1990s." International journal of human resource management 1.1 (1990): 17-43.

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 275

"Elon Musk, Et al.: The Corporate Arm Of The Deep State," https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/06/03/elon-musk-et-al-the-corporate-arm-of-the-deepstate-n2335618 Townhall.com, June 3, 2017
2010s, 2017

Man's Place in Nature https://archive.org/stream/MansPlaceInNature/Mans_Place_in_Nature#page/n101/mode/2up (1966), p. 100
February 26, 1964, page 54.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

The Case Against Civilization https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization (September 18, 2017), '.
Token Women, 1984
Stand-up

About PETA's activities. “Sir Paul McCartney and PETA VP Dan Mathews Reflect on Two Decades of Activism” (April 2005), in PETA.org http://www.peta.org/features/paul-mccartney-interview/.

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/twisted-2004 of Twisted (27 February 2004)
Reviews, Two star reviews

In a letter to his wife Clemmie, during the build up to World War I.
Early career years (1898–1929)
He gave me ten titles. I read eight of those and I was off. I always credit him with that casual, helpful comment that changed my life.
Scott London (2008) " The New Science of Leadership: An Interview with Margaret Wheatley http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/wheatley.html" in Quantum21. management journal, Spring 2008.

Voice-over introduction to Forza Motorsport 4 (2011)

Source: Are you being brainwashed?: Propaganda in science textbooks (2007), p. 27
Quoted by Michael Mallory in " Firsts Among Equals http://www.animationmagazine.net/top-stories/firsts-among-equals/", Animation Magazine (March 6th, 2014). Chris Farley was the original voice of Shrek.

After three years, after 150,000 dead, why I was wrong about Iraq, JohannHari.com, March 18, 2006, 2007-01-26 http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=831,

Ricou Browning performed swimmingly as movie monster http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/04/creature_from_the_black_lagoon.html (April 26, 2013)

Introduction to "The Red Paper On Scotland", 1975.

Speech, Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley (1964-12-02).

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 395
Context: The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic. In the context of this study the crucial question is whether the hypothesis of a quasi-autistic or of low-grade schizophrenic disturbance would help us to explain some of the violence spreading today.

Myth of Megalopolis <!-- p. 545 -->
The City in History (1961)
Context: Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

"The Imitative Instinct", p. 158
Savage Survivals (1916), Savage Survivals in Higher Peoples (Continued)

Introduction to Capital. Introduction to volume 1 (1976)

Pete Sampras, after playing his second exhibition match with Roger Federer, Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 22, 2007. http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/23/stories/2007112362882100.htm

"Twenty-three Horse Poems", 5 (《马诗二十三首(其五)》), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Xu Yuanchong (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 91
Original: (zh-CN) 大漠沙如雪,燕山月似钩。
何当金络脑,快走踏清秋。