Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines."
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Levers
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Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver."
Simone Weil
Philosopher, Activist
"Contradiction is the lever of transcendence."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination."
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