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• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Differences, Perception

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• We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.

  Jonathan Raban

  Unique, Assessment, Self

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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• Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Girl, Power, Opportunity

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• I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game.

  Bill Tierney

  Believe, Opportunity, Player

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• In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

  George Ade

  Country, Popular Entertainment, Cities

  Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1928.

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• Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

  Ronald Reagan

  Book, Law, Immigration

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• I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

  Edward Abbey

  Way, Resistance, Unnecessary

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flames, Wanted

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• Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Humor, Done, Helping

  Jimmy Fallon, Gloria Fallon (2008). “I Hate This Place: The Pessimist's Guide to Life”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

  Eric Schmidt

  People, Community, Video

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.

  Eric Schmidt

  Google, Use, Remember

  "As Google Challenges Viacom and Microsoft, Its CEO Feels Lucky". Interview with Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

  Jim Larranaga

  Life, Motivational, Kids

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• When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

  Bill Ford

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, World, Politics

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  Cutting, Artist, Winning

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (circa 1860), as quoted in "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century" edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Men, Doctors

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• The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Block, Car, Racing

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• American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.

  James Madison

  Country, Mean, Law

  James Madison, Robert Allen Rutland (1996). “The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series”

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• Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dark, People, Car

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• Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.

  David Levithan

  Moving, Car, Watches

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• You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.

  Kiersten White

  Emotional, Law, Names

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• What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

  Jon Stewart

  Sorry, Light, Government

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• We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it.

  Eric Schmidt

  Impact, People, Adoption

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.

  Howard Schultz

  Commodity Prices, Use, Want

  "Starbucks fix". Interview with Andy Serwer, archive.fortune.com. January 18, 2008.

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