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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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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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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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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
— Fritjof Capra
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
— Robert Peel
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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being…
— Jon Ronson
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity…
— Alan Paton
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As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science…
— Otto Wallach
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