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«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, engines, erected, erecting, erects, history of science, lighthouse, lighthouses, literature, sea change, speculation, speculations, standstill, The Lighthouse, The Sea, windows
«Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines»
Author: John Benfield
| Keywords:
eagles, engines, jet, jets, jet engines, soar, soared, sucked, suck in, suck up, The Eagles, weasel, weasels
«Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.»
Author: Richard Steele, Sr.
| Keywords:
compared, destruction, engines, gossip, gossiping, slow, swords
«I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.»
«And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.»
«And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.»
«Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something. The timing was right for the people who got to do it. And that is a lucky thing for t»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Luck
| Keywords:
engines, factories, steam, steam engine
«I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
driving, engines, Harley, motorcycle, motorcycles, rev, revving, wheels
«Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
asylums, Bad Taste, baron, Barons, brutal, chow, cinema, colonization, condom, condoms, demagogy, electric, electric chair, engines, etc., etc, famine, floods, gangster, gangsters, gonorrhea, guillotine, horse racing, infanticide, lunatic, machines, perversion, perversions, poodle, poodles, poodle dog, prisons, prostitution, quackery, race horse, racing, reformatories, reformatory, revolutions, sabotage, Siamese, strikes, suicides, syphilis, wages
«Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
absentminded, accent, Archimedes, commands, engines, lever, levers, mathematical
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