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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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"Be different to make a difference."
"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."
"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."
"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."
"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."
"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
"I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference."
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."
"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
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"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."
"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted."
"In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking."
"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
"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."
"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject."
"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
"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."
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