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- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now… — John Selden
- Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie
- Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft
- In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. — John Stuart Mill
- It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. — Matthew Henry
- I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way… — Georges Bataille
- I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — William Hazlitt