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• If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

  Arthur Koestler

  Eye, Journey, History

  "The Sleepwalkeers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

  Keith Duckworth

  Aerodynamics, People, Car

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• The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

  Joyce Cary

  Car, Purpose, Objects

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Enthusiasm For Life, Might

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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• True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

  John W. Davis

  Mistake, Stress, Eye

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• Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.

  Ian Foster

  Moving, Community, Innovation

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• The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Attitude, Civilization, Culture

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• But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Powerful, Hot, Sometimes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

  Kurt Busiek

  Simple, Years, Wind

  Kurt Busiek (2011). “Astro City: Life in the Big City (New Edition)”, p.9, DC

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• The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

  T. J. Stiles

  Growth, Inequality

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• The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.

  Josh Gates

  Inspiration, Adventure, Eye

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• Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Influence, Manners

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• The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

  John Benfield

  Eagles, Jet Engines, May

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• There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

  Bradley Cooper

  Order, Spurs, Nuggets

  "Interview: Limitless' Bradley Cooper". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, www.cinemablend.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

  Paulo Coelho

  Use, Brake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 19, 2014

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• I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.

  Neko Case

  Fishing, Voice, Singing

  "Neko Case Surges Forward with 'Flood'". "Morning Edition" with Ashley Kahn, www.npr.org. March 28, 2006.

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• The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

  Mooji

  Ships, Rowing, Busy

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• The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Moving, Thinking, Ipods

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• Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

  Ben Bernanke

  Running, Car, Trying

  Interview with Arthur J. Rolnick, www.minneapolisfed.org. June 1, 2004.

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• Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

  Jamie Dimon

  Risk, Opaque, Management

  "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013.

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• The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

  George Santayana

  Order, Space, Wonderful

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three”, p.114, MIT Press

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• The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

  Amit Singhal

  Stars, Destiny, Google

  "Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before". www.slate.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

  Alan Robinson

  Successful, Organization, Ideas

  Alan G. Robinson (2009). “Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.

  David Brewster

  Creativity, Science, Mind

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