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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 like Mr. Dalton's,… — Charles Babbage
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on… — Charles Babbage
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest… — Felix Adler
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed,… — David Brainerd
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' — Alton Brown
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. — Joseph Butler
The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and… — Chris Christie
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. — Alexis de Tocqueville
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. — Sun Tzu
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly… — Janet Morris
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . .… — Livy
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny. — W. Clement Stone
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I… — Therese of Lisieux
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress… — Samuel Johnson
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual… — Noam Chomsky
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan

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