Aqueducts Quotes

• What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

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  Benjamin Franklin

  War   Bridges   Rivers  

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.332, Penguin

  1705

• I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

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  Gustave Flaubert

  Aqueducts   Stories   Flow  

  4618

• A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

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  Harris L Coulter

  Drinking   Aqueducts   Autism  

  3019

• The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

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  Henry Ward Beecher

  Aqueducts   Water   Church  

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

  3653

• Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.

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  Paul Virilio

  Memories   Powerful   Technology  

  Source: ctheory.net

  1876