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It was then that I understood why the dreamseller said that success is harder to deal with than failure: The danger of success is that one can become a perpetual-motion machine.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Jenny Lin's virtuosic performance of Gyoergy Ligeti's "Continuum" for harpsichord, from 1968, made connections to baroque perpetual-motion pieces and the more modern style of minimalism.
On the Verge of experimental dissolution Charles Downey 2011
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And about the man who approached Noory at a dinner and told him, urgently, that he needed to show him photos of a perpetual-motion machine he had created, only to slap down pictures of common toilet parts.
The Listener 2010
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The phenomenon known as Pork Barrel BBQ, founded by two former Senate staffers after their boss, Sen. Jim Talent R-Mo., lost his re-election bid in 2006, continued to rock the 'cueosphere with its perpetual-motion Tweeting and Facebooking machines.
Smoke Signals: The year in barbecue Jim Shahin 2011
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The Edmund catalog featured boomerangs, lenses, sextants, chemistry kits, robot parts, gyroscopes and the famous drinking bird, which appeared to be a perpetual-motion machine.
He Supplied the Gadgets to Scientists of All Ages Stephen Miller 2012
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And about the man who approached Noory at a dinner and told him, urgently, that he needed to show him photos of a perpetual-motion machine he had created, only to slap down pictures of common toilet parts.
The Listener 2010
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Mr. Kaiser makes a neat analogy with the way, in the 19th century, people would try to invent perpetual-motion machines.
Merry-Prankster Physicists John Gribbin 2011
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In trying to explain why perpetual-motion machines could not work, physicists were led to a deeper understanding of physics, one that became a foundation of thermodynamics.
Merry-Prankster Physicists John Gribbin 2011
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This perpetual-motion machine wouldn't be working if Mrs. Kirchner wasn't the beneficiary of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's easy money policy.
Bernanke Reflates Kirchner's Presidency Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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It was then that I understood why the dreamseller said that success is harder to deal with than failure: The danger of success is that one can become a perpetual-motion machine.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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