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• You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

  Daniel Handler

  Popcorn, Window, More Time

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• And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.

  Etgar Keret

  Coffee, Missing Him, Men

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• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, New York, Eight

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 2012.

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Needs, Way, Nervous

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1871). “Passages from the English Note-books: Of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.63

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• If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Running, Successful, Might

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• At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Ocean, Bacteria, Heat

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• Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.

  Gabe Newell

  Creating, Tools, Creator

  "Hatred game back on Steam Greenlight" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2014.

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• When I know I have a huge shoot, I’ll just go into the sauna and steam out my face. Product-wise, I don’t really do much because I sometimes think products make me break out . I just use normal soap and water and moisturizer. My brows are really important to me but I’ve never plucked or waxed them. I’ll just fill them in with Anastasia brow kit.

  Chanel Iman

  Wise, Thinking, Water

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• In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

  Ross Parmenter

  Air, Essentials, World

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• The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

  Sally Ride

  Fire, Clouds, Light

  Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Glasses, Mirrors

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• It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Independent, Thinking, Race

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Powerful, Men, Wheels

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• Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

  Sara Coleridge

  Soul, Use, Life Is

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.164

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• My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Mother, Blue, Danger

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• Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front.

  Martin Tyler

  Football, Commentators, Dashing

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• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Leisure, Vacuums

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

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• This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of the need to blow some steam off?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Blow, Emotional

  "A Conservative History of the United States" by Jack Hitt, www.newyorker.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Civilization, Tables, Sin

  Journaux Intimes "Mon CoeurMis a Nu" no. 59 (1887)

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• Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

  Eric Massa

  Mother, Children, Son

  "The Democrat Party is a Gulag". "The Rush Limbaugh show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Mar 8, 2010.

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• Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dark, Decay, Body

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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