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Andrew Carnegie Quotes: In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
         

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.


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