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“Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods were produced.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“bloated industrials, who were piling up fortunes abroad while they were wrecking their country at home.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of steam engines… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“I remember him telling me that engineering was the highest level of importance you could reach in the world,” Steve Wozniak later recalled. “It… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“At the heart of the industrialization process was iron and steel, and Britain was pre-eminent in their production.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world,… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Since 'coming out,' I've marched in gay pride parades all around the world, I've filled my home full of rainbow tat and I've become… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
Thanks to all members of the military around the world for giving me the ultimate motivation. — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
I look at what's happening around the world and I see Iran four years closer to a bomb. I see the Middle East with… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The low point occurred in July, during Romney’s junior week abroad, in which the press became increasingly frustrated over Romney’s refusal to talk to… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
I believe there definitely are good things about social networking. It's a way for people to connect all around the world. — Lizzie Velasquez Copy Share Image
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