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The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is in ...
A machine is characterized by sustained, autonomous action. It is set up by human hands and then is more or less set loose from hu ...
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our peace and safety, which all the great powers habitually observe an ...
All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must n ...
Darwin was, like Copernicus, a one-idea man. Each had his "nuclear inspiration" early in life, and spent the rest of his life work ...
And me happiest when I compose poems:
Love, power, the huzza of battle
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... the reason I keep doing it is for the tremendous rush I get at the end of any great swim.... there is ... nothing greater than ...
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the f ...
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man.
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