Mobility Quotes - Page 2

• I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social
  mobility,since before it was cool.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Social, Strengthening

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

  Harriet Harman

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "Labour attacks Nick Clegg over social mobility plan". www.bbc.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

  Stewart Udall

  Balance, Limited Resources, Use

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• Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

  William J. Mitchell

  Successful, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

  Elliot Morley

  Future, Vision, Generations

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• The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

  Michael Gove

  Keys, Acquisition, Social

  "Michael Gove reveals the surprising inspirations behind his reforms" by Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

  Paul Ryan

  Feet, People, Safety

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• This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Home, Office

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Desire

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• As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

  Tim Ferriss

  Order, Two, People

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• Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

  Henri Bergson

  Nature, Real, Order

  "An Introduction to Metaphysics".

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• The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

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• In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Years, Cities

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• Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

  Ernest Gellner

  Serious, Problem, Obstruction

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.110, Cornell University Press

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• No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

  Danielle Steel

  Men, Limits, Your Freedom

  Danielle Steel (2009). “Passion's Promise”, p.99, Dell

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• With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.

  Robin Williams

  Zero, Hundred, Term

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• I took my sight and mobility for granted.

  Sue Townsend

  Sight, Granted

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• It isn't a given that the companies that provide mobility today will also be the ones to do so tomorrow. Every company has to work hard to make this happen.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Hard Work, Today, Tomorrow

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• Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Sea

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.21, OUP Oxford

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• The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

  Raj Chetty

  Years, Data, Childhood

  "An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty" by David Leonhardt, Amanda Cox and Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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• To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Eye, Enemy, Cunning

  Guy de Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge (2001). “Pierre Et Jean”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  Alison Lurie

  Girl, Running, Class

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• I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.

  Elana Dykewomon

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

  Kathy Acker

  Lying, Political, Warfare

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Baby, Pregnancy, Night

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