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The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. ↗


— James Prescott Joule


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Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms. ↗


— Cy Young


#arms #control #days #enough #every

You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an emotional or metaphysical kind - when a book speaks so powerfully to us that we feel it’s ours exclusively: that it exists just tor us. People we meet sometimes have this effect too; they look into our eyes, and speak in a hushed, intimate voice, and make us feel we’re uniquely important to them - before going on to do the same to someone else. In life, we call these people flirts. The best books are flirtatious, too, since they seem to be ours alone when in reality they’re anyone’s. ↗


— Blake Morrison


#twelve-thoughts-about-reading #life

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. ↗


— Bruce Barton


#business #conquered #forged #into #jesus

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. ↗


— Steven Spielberg


#dramas #home #i #kids #little

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. ↗


— Larry Hagman


#long #only #parody #play #something

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ↗


— Herbert Spencer


#composed #ignorance #jury #men #twelve

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. ↗


— Joe Pantoliano


#acting school #am #being #bird #i

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. ↗


— Tug McGraw


#between #ears #elbow #i #inches

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. ↗


— Jackson Browne


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