"Anything for the quick life, as the..." - Quote by Charles Dickens
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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“Them which is of other naturs thinks different.”
“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”
“It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.”
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“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?”
“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.”