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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is…
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not…
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers…
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude…
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It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government…
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing…
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We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality…
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
— Plotinus
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