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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to d

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. – Charles Babbage

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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. – Charles Babbage

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. – Charles Babbage

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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. – Charles Babbage

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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. – A. N. Wilson

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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that were not, we cling to. – Gabriel Byrne

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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. – Baltasar Gracian

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