"The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions."

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Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.4

Charles Babbage

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“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”
“Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad.”
“The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.”
“The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.”
“Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”

Source : Song: Under The Water, 2009
“I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor”
“I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.”
“I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.”

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