Transportation Quotes - Page 6

• God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Iron, Water

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.74, Dial Press

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• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Bypass, Finding Your Path

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.27, Del Rey

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• My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  My Favorite, Form, Restaurants

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Fun, Energy, Batteries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorance, Past, House

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• For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

  Lawrence Lessig

  May, Gains, Lost

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• Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Government, Arena, Century

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• Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

  Jane Byrne

  Chicago, Conventions, Trade

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• Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.

  Michael Klare

  Unique, Oil, Energy

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.

  Angela Merkel

  Children, Hands, Gaps

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• Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

  Hermann E. Ott

  Liberty, Would Be, Rural Areas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

  Tim Bishop

  New York, Healthy, Amtrak

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• The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

  Russ Carnahan

  Country, Important, Citizens

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• My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Space, Orbit, Mit

  Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

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• There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly!

  David Berg

  Heaven, Problem, Floats

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• Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

  Holly Sklar

  Drinking, School, Vaccines

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• The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

  Peter Garrett

  Play, People, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

  Peter Guber

  Moving, Emotional, Want

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• You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

  Tim Kaine

  Land, Decision, Use

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• Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Nursing, Emotional, Race

  "How to Make the U.S. a Better Place for Caregivers" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.theatlantic.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cities, Discipline, Design

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Ambition, Moon

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• I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

  Jim DeMint

  Support, Care, Devolution

  "Sens. DeMint & Murkowski and Chairman Kaine on 'State of the Union'". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 19, 2010.

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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• Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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