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What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?: The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
I can see the time when every city will have one.: An American mayor's reaction to the news of the invention of the telephone
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.: Orville Wright
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.: John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.: Stephen King (1947 - ), Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle.: Robert W. Shaunon
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.: Robert M. Hamilton
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

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