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Uniformity and steadiness in the rate at which machinery works, are essential both for its effect and its duration.

Quote by Charles Babbage about essential

I've always been surprised at the degree of success of The Mirror and the Lamp and duration of esteem for it. I had no reason to expect in 1953 that it would appeal to more than a specialized group interested in literary criticism.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about criticism, literary critic, reason

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about woman

I'm starting to work with durations again, trying to organise them in a completely aleatoric way interms of the composition; it's all written out, but the compositional information is all generated by chance.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about chance, work

The duration of a relationship to a person is inversely proportionate to the importance of person to you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, people