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«Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.»
Author: Orville Wright
(Inventor)
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air power, engine, flights, Home Alone, inform, longest, mile, press home, Thirty one, Thursday, Thursdays, twenty one, wind power
«The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
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engine
«The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine»
«Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it»
«When you travel by train, you have only to purchase the ticket, enter the proper train and take a seat, leaving the rest to the engine. Why should you carry the bed and trunk on your head? So too put your trust in the Lord and carry on to the best of your ability.»
«When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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