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Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world it's not a driver - art imitates life.
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.
Quotes By Charles Babbage
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That science has long been neglected and declining in England is not an...
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Perhaps it would be better for science that all criticism should be avowed.
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A powerful attraction exists therefore to the promotion of a study and of...
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then...
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the...
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There is however another purpose to which academies contribute. When they...
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence...
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Surely if knowledge is valuable it can never be good policy in a country...
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It will be readily admitted that a degree conferred by an university ought...
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At each increase of knowledge as well as on the contrivance of every new...
Quotes About Loneliness
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.