Engines Quotes

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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. — Edmund Burke
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand… — Bertrand Russell
I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well. — Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is… — George Eliot
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of… — Walter Lippmann
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of… — Thomas Jefferson
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,… — Wendell Berry
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived… — John Harvey Kellogg
Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of… — Aharon Katzir
Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's… — Cecil Arthur Lewis
There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric… — Steven M. Greer
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. — Keith Duckworth
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a mad race in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier… — Eric S. Raymond
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his… — Henry Adams
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses.… — Kurt Vonnegut
I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I… — Helen Keller
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… — Alan Robinson

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