Quote by Charles Babbage
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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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. – Charles Babbage

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A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. – Charles Babbage

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. – Alice Walker

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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. – Noam Chomsky

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