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I shall look forward to a pleasant time.
I shall look forward to a pleasant time.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of read more
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
 I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
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 I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important. 
Don't worry, it's not loaded.
Don't worry, it's not loaded.
 All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; 
The feast is over, and the lamps expire.  
 All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; 
The feast is over, and the lamps expire. 
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.