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I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar… — Robert E. Cushman Jr Copy Share Image
There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden. — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and… — John Lachs Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
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… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
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