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1 " In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long. "
― Alexandre Dumas , The Count of Monte Cristo
2 " She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. "
― Émile Zola , Pot Luck
3 " Among the things she said: " Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium. "
4 " Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active and far reaching, the old verbalistic philosophy and metaphysics have lost their reason to exist. They were no more able to understand the " production" of the universe and life than they are now able to understand or grapple with " production" as a means to provide a happier existence for humanity. They failed because their venerated method of " speculation" can not produce, and its place must be taken by mathematical thinking. Mathematical reasoning is displacing metaphysical reasoning. Engineering is driving verbalistic philosophy out of existence and humanity gains decidedly thereby. Only a few parasites and " speculators" will mourn the disappearance of their old companion " speculation." The world of producers -the predominating majority of human beings- will welcome a philosophy of ordered thought and production. "
