David J. C. MacKay Quotes
The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.
David J. C. MacKay
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F. L. Lucas
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Natasha Little
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright
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Elizabeth Lesser
