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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Charles Babbage

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Fall Mode Power Rise
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Art Civilization Country Hope Prosperity Strength Success Victory War
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Age Education Fact Greatness Invention Production University
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God’s laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.
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Control God Law Miracle Nature Order
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Capability Development Execution Future Guide Machine Necessary Operation Science
Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
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Important Performance Person Principle Work
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
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Frequent Object Organ See Vision
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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Hope Mathematics Race
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
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Absence Errors Fact Reason Result Rise True
The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.
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Collection Each Other Man Medal Praise Society Wine
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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Data Errors Information
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
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Better Desire Myself Strength Work Writing
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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Employment Frame Frequency Human Production Togetherness
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
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Accurate Degree Devotion Greatness Person Time
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Correct Hold Man Number Slave Strong Value Weakness
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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Better Criticism Science
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Possession Source Wealth
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
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Basket Empty Name Yourself
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
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Destroy Difficult Estimate Intellectual Loss Misery Person Time Work
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
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Element Knowledge Man School University Young
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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Calculation Execution God Myself
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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Existence Guide Necessary Science
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Knowledge Possession Public Quantity University
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Human Knowledge Tools Work
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Art Construction Employment Industry Key Machine Perfection Possession Success Tools
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.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Appointment Discussion Exercise Money Performance Price

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

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