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Charles Babbage Quotes

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: December 26, 1791 - October 18, 1871

Topics

Great Information Over Machines

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

Man Think Real Man Feelings Down Go

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

People Hell Hell Is Other

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Life Learning Children Moment School

I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

Michael Douglas

Live Over Tell Going Kids

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Alone Lonely Feel Know Way Only

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Failure Business People Alcohol You

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

Good Always Line Out Unemployment

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Love Looking Black Trying You Look

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

Truth Social Media Media Results Did

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.

Work Family Farm Early Kind Status

When you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career.

Life Passion Character You Look

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

Day Poetry World Hunger Would Were

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