"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."

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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."

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"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."

Donald Knuth, American Scientist

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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

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"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

Alan Turing, English Mathematician

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"Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools."

Don Henley, American Musician

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"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."

Joey Dunlop, Irish Celebrity

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"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."

George Takei, American Actor

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"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."

Flip Wilson, American Comedian

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"My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology."

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"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."

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"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."

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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."

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"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

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"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."

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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."

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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."

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"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."

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"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."

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