Quotes with metals

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• As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

  ― Alfred Russel Wallace
  British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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• Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.

  Source: Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326

  ― Benito Mussolini
  Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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• Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

  ― Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• masterpiece
• capacities
• brilliant
• railways
• superior
• idleness

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