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• This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

  Jacques Chirac

  Europe, Example, Faster

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  Ralph Boston

  Team, Athlete, Winning

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• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  Edmund Wilson

  Real, Genius, Moral

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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• If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Respect, Search Engine, Creator

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• There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Country, Powerful, Wind

  William Stanley Jevons (1866). “The coal question: an enquiry concerning the progress of the Nation, and the probable exhaustion of our coal-mines”, p.144

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• The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Men

  1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

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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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• Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

  John Tinker

  Reality, Names, Differences

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• Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for other marketing tactics. Social media is not an island. It's a high-power engine on the larger marketing ship.

  Matthew Dickman

  Opportunity, Islands, Media

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• I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

  Frontinus

  War, Ideas, New Work

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• I am purely evil;
  Hear the thrum
  of my evil engine;
  Evilly I come.
  The stars are thick as flowers
  In the meadows of July;
  A fine night for murder
  Winging through the sky.

  Ethel Mannin

  Stars, Flower, Night

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• What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

  Paul Samuelson

  Powerful, Doubt, Growth

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• Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Distance, Spheres

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

  Donald Hall

  Writing, Today

  Donald Hall (1994). “Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

  Jeb Bush

  Family Love, Population, Prosperity

  "'Immigrants Are More Fertile,' Jeb Bush Says In Reform Speech". www.npr.org. June 14, 2013.

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• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loss, Despair, Anticipation

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• A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is some kind of general and diffuse irritability or tenseness which is preventing a tired baby relaxing into sleep. The burring sound of a fan or heater works excellently. So does the sound of a car engine.

  Penelope Leach

  Baby, Tired, Sleep

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• Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Towers, Architecture

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 748

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• The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

  John Herschel

  Powerful, Book, Civilization

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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• ... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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