Transportation Quotes - Page 12

• The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

  Helen Keller

  Compassion, Air, People

  The Home Magazine, Apr. 1935

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• Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.

  Louise Hay

  Spiritual, Jobs, Grateful

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• There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Communication, People, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.

  Joel Salatin

  Running, Country, Tunnels

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• The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work.  Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe…  They have no knowledge in that area.  Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• Today everyone, whether they know it or not, is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move people to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it.

  Peter Guber

  Moving, Emotional, Creating

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• Music is a means of rapid transportation.

  John Cage

  Music, Mean, Rapids

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.59, Wesleyan University Press

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• What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?

  Sylvia Day

  Sex

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.327, Penguin

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• Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

  Andrew Weil

  Running, Thinking, Challenges

  "Walk Like An Australian, Lose 10 Pounds" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• ...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

  Jack London

  Dog, Strong, Men

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.

  Aravind Adiga

  Running, Business, Drinking

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.

  Wendell Berry

  Two, Oil, Energy

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, America, Energy

  Barack Obama's speech on Energy at University of Miami in Miami, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 23, 2012.

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• Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

  Friedrich List

  Philosophy, Political, Economics

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• We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  People, Energy, Climate

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Real, Oil, American West

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. If you look at any other transportation system, a car, a motorcycle, a train, an oil tanker, an airliner, you name it; about a quarter to a third of the operating cost is buying the propellant.

  Burt Rutan

  Names, Oil, Car

  Source: bigthink.com

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