"The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it."

-- O. Winston Link

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“Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.”
“It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.”
“Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.”

Source : Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.152, PM Press
“In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.”

Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe
“I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.”

Source : "Jonas Mekas: Anthology Film Archives". Interview with Terence Teh, www.dazeddigital.com. April 27, 2011.
“Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation”
“I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air and deploy my ordnance to the ground.”
“Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.”

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