"When it's steamboat time, you steam" — Mark Twain

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• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million… — Diane Ackerman
• A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is… — Charles Babbage
• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without… — Henry Ward Beecher
• In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about… — Vinoba Bhave
• Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none… — James Buchan
• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov
• James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the… — Jeremy Rifkin
• The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best… — James Prescott Joule
• Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine. — Napoleon Hill
• It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity… — Winston Churchill
• True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the… — Charles Baudelaire
• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark -… — Martin Amis

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