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"The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
"Our differences are the real treasures."
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"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
"Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform."
"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs."
"There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list."
"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
"The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person."
"A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science."
"A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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