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Tag Name "Friction" (97)

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The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.
Adrian Bejan
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Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
Marcus Buckingham
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Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
Herman Melville
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The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.
Napoleon Hill
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Frequent friction when love becomes political.
Delano Johnson
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Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.
Raymond Arroyo
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They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
Afrika Bambaataa
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It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Simon Hughes
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If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
Henry David Thoreau
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
Nikola Tesla
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Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
Carl von Clausewitz
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There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.
Laurel Nakadate
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Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.
Juan Williams
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If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.
Gwen Ifill
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Worry... is rust upon the blade.
Simon Hughes
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Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.
Norm MacDonald
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Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
Bruce Greenwood
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Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.
Joanna Newsom
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Fear is the friction in all transitions.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.
Edward VII
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So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
John Abizaid
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Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
Etgar Keret
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