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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
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"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."
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"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
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"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
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"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
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"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."
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"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
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"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."
Men
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
England
"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."
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"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."
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"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
Life
"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."
Sun
"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."
Society
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
Men
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
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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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