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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. -- Paul Theroux
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. -- Thomas Carlyle
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. -- H. L. Mencken
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. -- Benjamin Franklin
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. -- Dean Kamen
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. -- Gene Fowler
I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless. -- Katherine Parkinson
I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world. -- Thomas Steinbeck
If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. -- Annie Besant
Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast. -- Angela Carter
The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable. -- Philip Zimbardo
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions -- Dean Kamen
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. -- Angela Carter
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind -- Gene Fowler
Im going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless. -- Katherine Parkinson
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold. -- Chanakya

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