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Engine Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may…
- To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,…
- Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting…
- The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
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