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Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
Joe Perry / Guitarist
Aerosmith
Band
Mean
Powerful
Steam
Locomotive
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If you understand physics of how a locomotive works, that knowledge is irreplaceable.
Jamie S. Miller /
Knowledge
Irreplaceable
Physics
Understand
Works
Locomotive
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Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
John Moody / Financial Analyst
Car
Horse
Mules
Sail
Sailing
Earliest
Horses
Locomotive
Rapid
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
William Cullen Bryant /
Truth
Error
Finger
Locomotive
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We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
Baba Kalyani /
Indian
Railway
Locomotive
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We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.
Jamie S. Miller /
Engines
Engine
Locomotive
Rebuild
Tear
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Orison Swett Marden / Author
Men
Strong
Successful
Track
Weak
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Ideally
Locomotive
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High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
Barry Lam /
Admire
Forever
Short Time
Steam
Time Art People
Anymore
Short
Gogh
Locomotive
Picasso
Tech
Van
Van Gogh
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Children
Mother
Son
Spawn
Steam
Vote
Sell
Locomotive
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In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Attention
Competing
Emergencies
International
Resources
World
Disasters
Helps
Locomotive
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I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.
Raymond Loewy / Industrial Designer
Accused
Cases
Designer
Enclose
Essential
Locomotive
Shell
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Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
George Combe / Author
Liable
Mean
Muscles
Taught Us
Thinking
Brief
Locomotive
Proposed
Therefore
Thinks
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Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.
Jeremy Grantham / Investor
Running
Brain
Discipline
Investors
Names
Tag
Timing
Using Your Brain
Brain Your People
Involves
Locomotive
Market
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The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.
Peter Landesman /
Machines
Massive
Locomotive
Trains
Pulled
Tunnel
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The tail of the comet always points straight away from the sun, in antisolar direction. Sometimes the tail trails behind, but sometimes it's perpendicular, and sometimes it's ahead of the comet like a headlight on a railroad locomotive.
Eugene Parker /
Sun
Trails
Ahead
Behind
Comet
Direction
Locomotive
Perpendicular
Railroad
Tail
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One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have so many moving parts that are out in the open. You can watch the valves moving back and forth - the driving rods.
Jim Peebles / Physicist
Attention
Caught
Memories
Moving Parts
Steam
Watch
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Forth
Guess
Locomotive
Mainly
Parts
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Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. People can talk about themselves, yet the art of conversation, which has to do with sharing, is disappearing. I feel as though I am chasing a runaway locomotive.
Letitia Baldrige / Expert
Chasing
Depraved
Runaway
Talk Shows
Unattractive
All Day
Disappearing
Locomotive
Sharing
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When I came on 'The West Wing,' I jumped onto something that was already a steaming locomotive of a hit. It was very exciting for me because I knew, the moment I got the 'West Wing' job, 'Well, hey, so now I'm on a hit show because it already is established and very popular.'
Joshua Malina / Film Actor
Hey
Established
Locomotive
Onto
West Wing
Wing
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I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.
Kevin Spacey / Actor
Forty
Just One
Orchestra
Standing
Describe
Love Yourself Singing
Locomotive
Microphone
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There was a lot of the 'Hamilton' experience that was like a locomotive. It was a hurricane, so the apartment often looked like a hurricane. There were clothes and shoes all over. We were getting more things in than we had room for. We had to figure out how to make space for all the blessings and goodness coming toward us.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Goodness
Blessings
Hurricane
Locomotive
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It used to be said that war was the locomotive of history, with its power to accelerate change. The coronavirus crisis has that same power. It has already shown us who we really are, and how there is much more than unites than divides us. It has shown how governments need to work with their citizens to overcome threats or challenges.
Caroline Lucas / Former Member Of The European Parliament
Accelerate
Citizens
Crisis
Divides
Overcome
Governments
Locomotive
Shown
Threats
Unites
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Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.
Matt Bomer / Actor
Faster
Leap
Relevant
Right Thing
Speeding
Tall
Zeitgeist
Bound
Buildings
Do The Right Thing
Fly
Locomotive
Shove
Superheroes
Superman
The Right Thing
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