#horse

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power. ↗

— Orville Wright

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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗

— Orville Wright

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With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing. ↗

— Neil Young

#crazy #gliding #growing #horse #i

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#diary #horse #i #jockey #kept

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#great #him #horse #horses #i

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. ↗

— Herman Melville

#brutes #divinity #even #exempt #forever

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ↗

— John Adams

#horses #keep #like #minds #must

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#custer #dead #had #heroes #horse

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#daily #daily life #history #horse #incorporated

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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