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• 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 whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Stars, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

  William Thorsell

  Memories, Character, Thinking

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• This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

  Janet Finch

  Destiny, Race, Fuel

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• When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

  Mireille Enos

  Dad, Car, Littles

  "Mireille Enos Is Killing Us". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

  Melvil Dewey

  Reading, Electricity, Steam

  Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”

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• To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

  Louis J. Halle

  Men, Cycling, Independence

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• The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

  George Santayana

  Order, Space, Wonderful

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three”, p.114, MIT Press

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• This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

  Jacques Chirac

  Europe, Example, Faster

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  Ralph Boston

  Team, Athlete, Winning

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• Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

  Jamie Dimon

  Risk, Opaque, Management

  "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  Edmund Wilson

  Real, Genius, Moral

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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• The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

  Simon Pegg

  Addiction, Car, Hearing

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• We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

  Larry Page

  Google, Innovation, Balance

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Writing, Engineering, Bridges

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• All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

  Amar Bose

  Military, Jet Engines, Design

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• Pakistan without Ajmal is like car without engine

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Car, Pakistan

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• Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.

  Terry Gross

  Google, Search Engine, Stills

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. October 17, 2016.

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• Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

  James Lovelock

  Fall, Knowing, Sailing

  "The Revenge of Gaia". Interview with James Lovelock, www.theguardian.com. 2006.

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• The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

  Janet Finch

  Father, Philosophy, Mean

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• I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

  Dallas Willard

  Soul, Would Be, Fuel

  Source: renovare.org

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• Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

  Jim Lehrer

  Caring, Fire, Journalism

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• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  Barry Commoner

  Meaningful, Powerful, Environmental Quality

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• If you look at the offense like a fancy car, the offensive line is the engine. Even though we might have nice spinners and nice rims and tinted windows and some neat paint job, it doesn't mean crap without the engine. If the engine's not working, the car might look like a pretty nice car, but it's a piece of crap.

  Mike Tice

  Jobs, Nice, Mean

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• Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

  Ben Bernanke

  Running, Car, Trying

  Interview with Arthur J. Rolnick, www.minneapolisfed.org. June 1, 2004.

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• If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Respect, Search Engine, Creator

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