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The steam engine and cheap cast iron and steel revolutionized transportation as well as construction.
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
A belief, as Peirce understands it, is not some intellectual disposition to assent to a proposition, but a behavioural habit manifest in action. Accordingly, when real doubt ensues it disrupts our usual behavioural patterns.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
The enemy. He had an enemy again. He didn’t like it. Loathed it, in fact. Yet an ugly little part of him was awake now, like a cold arrowhead buried deep inside his mind.
Shards of Earth
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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