"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.“
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
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