Henry Bessemer quotes
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“I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.”
-- Henry BessemerSource : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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“I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery”
-- Henry BessemerSource : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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“In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.”
-- Henry BessemerSource : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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“I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.”
-- Henry BessemerSource : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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“It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.”
-- Henry BessemerSource : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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“We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.”
-- Henry BessemerSource : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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“On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.”
-- Henry BessemerSource : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization”, p.29, Shambhala Publications
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“Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin
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