They say, 'How can you trust a mechanic? How can you trust the FAA? How do you trust the National Transportation Safety Board ?' All of these things you really can't see. You know they're there, but you don't know what they do or how well they do it,
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
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The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic.
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If it dosn't work, try fixing it. If it breaks, you've lost nothing.
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