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“Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.”
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“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”
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“Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.”
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“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.”
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“Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.”
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“In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.”
Source : James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.564, Courier Corporation
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“If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.”
Source : "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 17, 2006.
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“All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.”
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“I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.”
Source : George Frideric Handel (1854). “Messiah; a Sacred Oratorio ... Arranged for the Organ Or Pianoforte, with Vocal Score, by G. J. Elvey”, p.9
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“The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.”