Quotes with engine-drivers

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  • Bill Bruford And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Lance Morrow As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
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  • Brad Feld As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Baba Kalyani At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barack Obama Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James Watt I can think of nothing but this engine.
    Letter to Matthew Boulton 29 april 1765.
    James Watt
    Scottish engineer (1736 - 1819)
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  • George S. Patton I do not fear failure. I only fear the ''slowing up'' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ''Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?''
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Arthur Koestler If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Bill Dedman If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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