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«Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.»
«The glowing magma emerges like redhot toothpaste from a long, wide crack and then crawls into the Pacific, creating a tall, furious cloud of steam.»
Author: Robert Gross
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crack, crawls, emerges, furious, glowing, Pacific, redhot, steam, tall, the Pacific, toothpaste
«Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.»
«No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.»
Author: Joan Rivers
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confined, dedicated, disciplined, drives, focused, gas, Niagara, steam, steaming, The Tunnel, tunneled
«He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle.»
«BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.The man who taketh a steam bath He loseth all the skin he hath, And, for he's boiled a brilliant red, Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed, Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling With dirty vapors of the boiling. --Richard Gwow»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bath, boiled, boiling, ceremony, cleanliness, mystic, religious ceremony, Richard, soiling, steam, steam bath, substituted, The Skin, The Vapors, vapor, vapors, wedding ceremony
«Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something. The timing was right for the people who got to do it. And that is a lucky thing for t»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
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Luck
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engines, factories, steam, steam engine
«London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.»
Author: Henry James
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cash, counter, discernible, lurking, over-the-counter, red flag, sense of taste, steam
«God made man to go by motives, and He will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas»
«Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use»
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