Arthur Young Quotes

#1. The purpose creates the machine.

Arthur Young

#2. Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

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#3. The magic of property turns sand to gold.

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#4. The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

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#5. The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

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#6. The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

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#7. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

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#8. Everyone But an Idiot Knows That The Lower Classes Must Be Kept Poor, or They Will Never Be Industrious

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#9. God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Arthur Young