Samuel Crompton quotes

Samuel Crompton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.”
-- Samuel Crompton

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“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.”
-- Samuel Crompton

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“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”
“Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect”
“So perfect â€” Iâ€™m right where I need to be!”
“Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her”
“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”
“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”
“As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.”

Source : Adam Hamilton (2013). “When Christians Get It Wrong”, p.110, Abingdon Press
“Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, www.akdn.org. April 15, 2003.
“Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.”

Source : "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.

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