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• All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

  Ernst Mach

  Essence, Students, Consideration

  Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Tombstone, Heart, Joy

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• Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

  Victor Hugo

  Yesterday, Forever, May

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• To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Learning, Merit

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• See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Merit, Raises

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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