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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight an

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. – 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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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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Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, were gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things. – Evel Knievel

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Power and speed be hands and feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. – John Maynard Keynes

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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