There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of the solid crust of the earth, of water, and of their influence upon the life of plants and animals, was linked to that discovery. The successful pursuit of innumerable trades and manufactures, the profitable separation of metals from their ores, also stand in the closest connection therewith.
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
A society manufactures the heroes it requires.
Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.
