Means Of Transportation Quotes

• The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

  William Langewiesche

  Mean, Mastery, Stories

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• To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

  Yann Martel

  Life, Philosophy, Mean

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.51, Canongate Books

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• No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mean, Environmental, Able

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• Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

  Lewis Mumford

  Travel, Mean, Cooking

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• What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

  Erykah Badu

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

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• Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Night, Different

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• A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Mean, Long

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• If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

  Yann Martel

  Prayer, Philosophy, Moving

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

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• I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

  Paul Virilio

  Mean, Research, Revolution

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Mean, Land

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• Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Italian, Land

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• I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Thinking, Accomplishment

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Levitation, Way

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