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«He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.»
«Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.»
Author: Archimedes | Keywords: fulcrum, lever, levers
«Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.»
«Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered»
«Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.»
Author: Thomas J. Watson, Sr. | About: Friends | Keywords: lever, levers
«Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.»
«The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.»
«The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: lever, levers, mightiest