"To tell you the truth although it would put Â£500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had."

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Source : Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195

George Stephenson

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“Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.”
“Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.”
“In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.”
“Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.”
“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”
“The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.”
“Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.”

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