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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
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"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."
"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."
"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
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"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."
"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."
"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."
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