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• I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

  Laurence D. Fink

  Growth, United States, May

  "CEO Speaker Series: It's a New World: So What Should We Do? with Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock". www.cfr.org. February 29, 2012.

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• We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

  Arkady Volozh

  Search Engine, Originals, Products

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• Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jobs, Europe

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.

  Klaus Schwab

  Ideas, Creating, Issues

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• It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Our Generation, Class, America

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Horse, Years, Two

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• A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

  Fred Brooks

  Men, Dumb, Syntax

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• States are great engines moving slowly.

  Francis Bacon

  Moving, Government, States

  "Advancement of Learning" (Book II), as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.

  Steven Wright

  Car, Comedian, Sound

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• A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.

  Marc Goodman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

  John Adams

  Atheism, Preaching, Malice

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.35

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• We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a particular idea is linked to a character, it's like an engine moves it. Then you have a novel underway.

  Chinua Achebe

  Moving, Character, Sea

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• A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there.

  Chuck D

  Real, People, Records

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.

  Ralph Keyes

  Writing, Creative, Peculiar

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

  Vinod Khosla

  Oil, Interesting, House

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Guy, Motorcycle

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• The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to successfully combine performance with reliability the first time around. That could shake things up a bit when it comes team hierarchy.

  Michael Schumacher

  Team, Mean, Eight

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Discovery, Innovation

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• Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

  George Carlin

  Revolutionary, Function, Engineers

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Thinking, Iron

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.195, CUP Archive

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• I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun.

  Floyd Norman

  Fun, Book, Airplane

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, World, Prosperity

  Second presidential debate, www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

  Ada Lovelace

  Numbers, Peculiar, Abstract

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• The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions.

  Ada Lovelace

  Simple, Reality, Differences

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• This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.

  Ada Lovelace

  Differences, Facts, Instance

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