#gen

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. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. ↗

— Lynn Barber

#biographies #human #human race #interviews #like

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#been #crime #favourite #genre #novel

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#gentle #make #none #war

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#before #bring #gave #generation #house

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. ↗

— James Payn

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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#cultures #east #generations #matter #middle

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. ↗

— Hugh Blair

#gentleness #manner #offensive #our #whatever

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#am #best #convinced #general #his

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds. ↗

— Terry Branstad

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