Engines Quotes - Page 23

• You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Innovation, Way

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Discovery, Bayonets, Examination

  John Henry Wigmore, John Theodore McNaughton, Peter Tillers, James Harmon Chadbourn (1974). “Evidence in trials at common law”

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• As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

  Charles Babbage

  Guides, Courses

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• When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

  Bill Gates

  Rip, Car, Different

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• Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

  Henry Rollins

  New York, Cities, World

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• You can be enormously effective for a period of time, because it's almost like there's an engine in you that needs to keep going, and you have a greater drive than other people - who may be more happy and balanced in life - because you have to keep going out and proving yourself over and over again.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  People, Needs, Going Out

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

  Saul Bellow

  Dark, Reflection, Glasses

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.

  E. B. White

  Islands, Race, Cities

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• Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Revealing, Consumerism

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• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Florida

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• Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Jet Engines, Class

  FaceBook post by Eddie Izzard from Aug 02, 2014

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• Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like... bottle rockets.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Mean, Men, Long

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• Because criminals know that when they see a house with 2 foot tall grass, a dog on a chain, and an engine hanging from a tree, a gun lives in that house. And if you want to know what kind, just break in at 2 in the morning.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Morning, Gun

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• You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.

  O. Winston Link

  Moving, Light, Track

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• I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thinking, Community, May

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• If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Art, Writing

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.

  Georges St-Pierre

  War, Fighting, Army

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• Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.

  Matt Cutts

  Choices, Google, Quality

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• Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

  Paul Cookson

  Sports, Technology, Car

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• How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

  John Kremer

  Blades, Grass, Thousand

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• The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

  John Steinbeck

  Eye, Sound, Ribs

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Rome, Progress

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mother, Father, Impact

  "Off to the Races". www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2009.

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

  L. Frank Baum

  Reality, Talking, Imagination

  BookCaps, L. Frank Baum (2016). “The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)”, p.1645, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about the issue... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

  "A Fairness Doctrine for Internet?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 16, 2010.

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