The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the… — William Feindel Copy Share Image
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice:… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will… — John Wesley Snyder Copy Share Image
Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and… — Darren Walker Copy Share Image
The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
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