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"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
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"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation."
"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
"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."
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"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."
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