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• I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.

  Bill Ford

  Believe, Cells, Years

  "The Energy Web" by Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2001.

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• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Pride, Men

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• Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, People, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge)
  Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Bridges, Democracy, Privilege

  'On a Great Election' (1923)

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• When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Ignorance, Life Is, Rage Against The Machine

  "Song: Township Rebellion (Rage Against the Machine)". November 3, 1992.

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• The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Peace, Fear, Military

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• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Morning, Distance, Sleep

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

  Philip Guedalla

  Simple, Three, Pretender

  Supers and Supermen "Some Critics" (1920)

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• I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

  Julia Gardiner Tyler

  Winter, Presidential, Way

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• The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs?

  Guy Endore

  Squad, Class, Rifles

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• It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

  Richard Wagner

  Men, Forever, Speech

  Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press

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• In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

  Luigi Russolo

  Men, Silence, Triumph

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• Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

  James A. Garfield

  Believe, Order, Cosmos

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

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• Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

  John Milton

  Math, Umpires, Decision

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

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• The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

  Van Day Truex

  Art, Design, Today

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• And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Real, War

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• When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

  Tim Cahill

  Children, Heart, Hands

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• A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Book, Jewels, Library

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• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Kings, Blood

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.220

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• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Chance, Planning

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

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• The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.

  Pope Pius X

  Beautiful, Mother, Prayer

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• If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

  David Luiz

  Black And White, Artistic Life, Trying

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• Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority?

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Kings, Men, People

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• Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

  Serj Tankian

  Mother, Fighting, Reality

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• For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

  Immanuel Kant

  Earth, Firsts, Evolve

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