The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

quote by Alva Noto
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

quote by C. Wright Mills
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From A Moving Train

Written by gerry beckley, 1998
Found on human nature.
Ive seen the ides of march
And Ive seen the fall of rome
Ive seen all kinds of stuff
But I never see my home
If my life-line is
These million miles of track
One thing I know by now
There is no turning back
From a moving train
From a moving train
From a moving train
From a moving train
If every venture was
A path to no avail
Id still be rolling down
This never ending trail
If we had a destination
In our sights

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For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

quote by Charles Erwin Wilson
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And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

quote by Chris Anderson
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Searching

Hyperdrive engines,
speeding over the cloned earth,
searching for new life.

haiku by Marius Alexandru (February 2020)
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Busy Streets And Noisy Malls

confronted about
these noisy streets
and crowded malls
and honking motors
in traffic jams

i go within
into that peaceful
haven
inside my mind
my heart
sleeping in the cozy
nook
of my being.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Zephyr Hart

If you want your car repaired or want to fit an engine part
It well might pay you to ring Zephyr Hart
He's not hard to pay and is good at what he do
And he will be quite happy to help you.

Come rain or shine you will find him working hard
In his work shop a tin shed in his back yard
Working on engines and repairing brakes and punctured tyres
The work he does great character requires.

My datsun it is showing it's years in wear
And has rust spots on the body here and there
But despite all this the old car still survive
And it's thanks to Zephyr that it's still fit to drive.

In a mechanic's life there's lots of heavy toil
His hands and work clothes stained with grease and oil
It's not the type of work that many would enjoy
And there's easier ways to earn one's living by.

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poem by Francis Duggan
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All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

quote by Amar Bose
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Silver Wings

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
Theyre taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
Theyre taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Dont leave me I cry
Dont take that airplane ride
But you lock me outta your mind
Left me standing here behind
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
Theyre taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Slowly fading out of sight

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song performed by Ryan Adams
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Silver Wings

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
Theyre taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
Theyre taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Dont leave me I cry
Dont take that airplane ride
But you lock me outta your mind
Left me standing here behind
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
Theyre taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Slowly fading out of sight

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song performed by Whiskeytown
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Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

quote by Gary Sinise
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I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

quote by Leonard Woodcock
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And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

quote by Leonard Woodcock
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Angry engine wails,
angry welt where calm indwelt
sudden [sl]iced by trails

haiku by Jonathan Robin (12 April 1984)
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

quote by Edmund Burke
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

quote by Ben Jonson
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

quote by John Carmack
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Stolen Wrapping Paper

stolen wrapping paper,
covering boxes reused,
worn and tattered....

on lonesome street corners,
cigarettes crushed beneath
well known strangers feet....

lights flash, windows empty,
horns blow, motors running....
no direction home!

poem by Eric Cockrell
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The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

quote by Rudolf Diesel
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