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I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.
Sergio Marchionne
World
Will
Power
Think
Small
Combustion
Likelihood
Continue
Very
Represent
Large
Unit
Large Portion
Portion
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
Michael Leunig
Relationship
Madness
Fear
Flame
Imagination
Fraught
Mysterious
Blast
Combustion
Up
Candle
Human
Lit
Human Imagination
Fascination
Nuclear
The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hydrogen
Main
Splitting
Combustion
Off
Donor
Essentially
Packet
Event
Carbohydrate
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
Fabrizio Moreira
Today
Time
You
Take For Granted
Fly
Invention
Before
Other
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Machines
Would
Take
Allow
Combustion
Ideas
His
Years
Person
Trying
Being
Average
Leonardo
Leonardo Da Vinci
Average Person
Engine
Granted
Electricity
Internal
Many
Describe
Things
Humans
Imagine
Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
Gregory Benford
Car
Made
Experiment
Gave
Telephone
Airplane
TV
Computers
Leading
Thus
Combustion
Practical
Inevitably
Rocket
Us
Exploration
Engine
Theory
Internal
Electromagnetic
Radio
I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
Miranda Richardson
Character
Change
Conflict
People
Events
Drama
Way
Some
Combustion
Like
Sort
Makes
Surprised
Pat
Essence
Going
Just
Want
Which
Turn
Internal
Things
Desire
The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti
You
Car
Down
Kids
Advanced
Since
Combustion
Still
Were
Much
Engine
Boil
Gas
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
Michael A. Stackpole
Made
Reading
Pleasure
Introduction
More
Horses
Advent
Combustion
Than
Going
Engine
Internal
Extinct
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
Gaylord Nelson
Will
Power
Think
Thirty
Our
Cities
Disappear
Mass
Combustion
Because
Years
Next
Engine
Electrical
Transportation
Internal
Streets