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• History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Light, Electric Motors

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Running, Science, Men

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it.

  Richard Fisch

  Discipline, Gone, Machines

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• For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Dark, Science

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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• Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Enemy, Devil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.

  Sara Gruen

  Grateful, Kids, Vegetables

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• Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Technology, Discovery

  Edward Teller, Judith Schoolery (2009). “Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics”, p.42, Basic Books

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.142, Lulu.com

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• The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

  Steven Johnson

  Innovation, Batteries, Radio

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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• There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Nuclear, Driving

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• They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.

  Lauren Kate

  Kissing, Talking, Mouths

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.499, Delacorte Press

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• It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.

  Frank Bruno

  Depression, Mean, Wish

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• Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

  Rachel Weisz

  Fire, Needs, Performances

  "The Actress Roundtable". Interview with Matthew Belloni, Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 17, 2012.

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• It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.

  Richard Gehman

  Morning, Coffee, Men

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• One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

  Jose Mourinho

  Powerful, Stupid, One Day

  "Manchester United's José Mourinho: no longer the bright young iconoclast" by Jonathan Wilson, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2016.

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• It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Men, Ninety Nine

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7082, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.

  Kristen Wiig

  Inspirational, Dance, Blow

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

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• Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

  Frank Chodorov

  Pyramids, Steam Engines, States

  "Frank Chodorov: Champion of Liberty" by Aaron Steelman, fee.org. December 1, 1996.

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• There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

  Eliphas Levi

  Powerful, Mean, Men

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.41, Eliphas Levi

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

  Melvil Dewey

  Reading, Electricity, Engines

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

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• If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Two, Long Ago

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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