#convert

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority. ↗

— Andy Grove

#converting #first #gallon #like #mileage

This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#british #civilian #convert #export #facilities

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#daily #dull #enjoyments #habit #into

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

#also #colossal #converted #else #europe

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it! ↗

— Danica McKellar

#down #flip #flipping #found #fraction

Time makes more converts than reason. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#makes #more #reason #than #time

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #converted #heart #imagination #men

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#day #done #dreams #everything #faith