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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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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,…
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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…
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly…
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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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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss…
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved…
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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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 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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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of…
— Irving Berlin
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the…
— Tony Campolo
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It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.
— Milton Sapirstein
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There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
— John Philip Sousa
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When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not…
— Edward Carpenter
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I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all…
— Rau'shee Warren
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert…
— Matt Groening
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
— Will Durant
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