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• I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

  Martha Beck

  Believe, Light, Shadow

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• I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

  Matthew Barney

  Pregnancy, Car, Connections

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• I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.

  Nora Roberts

  Police, Records, Destroyed

  "Promises in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, 2008.

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• I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Expression, Novelists

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• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

  David Attenborough

  Use, Facts, Opinion

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• The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Vulnerable, Sophisticated, Building

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• The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mom, Mother, Artist

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• I really love sharing with young Canadians the changes we're seeing in the space program right now with what we call "commercial space." We have commercial cargo delivery to the space station, and now we have what we call "commercial crew," where we're going to be delivering people to low orbit on new vehicles that are being designed by Boeing and SpaceX.

  Jeremy Hansen

  People, Program, Delivery

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Cutting, Reason Why, Fuel

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• And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Skating, Kind

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• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  Salma Hayek

  Fighting, Thinking, Important

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• The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.

  Suze Orman

  People, Needs, World

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

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• Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Thinking, Years

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• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Fun, Thinking, Years

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• Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Competition

  "Jack's new world". Interview with Will Buckley, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.

  Cesar Millan

  Mother, Dog, Window

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Mean, Past

  "A life in writing" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped with dual engines, Hector worked during magic or tech. He didn't go very fast, especially during magic, but so far he hadn't stalled on me either. As long as our high-speed chases stayed under forty-five miles an hour, we would be all set.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Magic, Jeeps

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• Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

  Thomas Mann

  Magic, World, Changed

  "Freud and the Future". "Essays by Thomas Mann". Book translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, p. 307, 1957.

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• Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

  David Lynch

  Car, Meditation, Technique

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

  Ludacris

  School, Luxury, Car

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• Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

  Annie Lennox

  Communication, Opportunity, Platforms

  "Annie Lennox trying to get world to see changing face of AIDS". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2010.

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• Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't see anything wrong with that picture. Jacob was a gift from the gods.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Teenage, Boys, College

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• Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Blood, Alliances

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.24, Canongate Books

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