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"Seventy-two precious arts are kept in a brocade bag, they may be kept being a great treasure. Eighteen turn out the essence of the famous treatises on pugilistic arts. Eighteen other arts describe in greater detail training methods with the use of special tools and training equipment. Wonderful types of attaining the flexibility of the breath-chi, exercises in obtaining hardness and lightness, clenching methods are written with all the blood of monks in magazines which might be kept like a treasure inside the brocade bag. One can seldom meet people that genuinely wish to do exercises with zeal: to turn into a real hero, one must often feel bitter taste of hard labour. " /Secret Shaolin Treatises for the Pugilistic Art/ When tractors were first developed, they used enormous steam engines that were notoriously unreliable and hard to maintain. These were phased out around the turn with the twentieth century and substituted for internal combustion engines which were smaller though powerful and ran on a number of fuels including kerosene, ethanol and gasoline. By the 1960s several of these engines were phased out and only more effective internal combustion engines that ran on diesel and after this, biodiesel.