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• Watch out for trees and traffic.
  The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.

  Janet Macunovich

  Mistake, Impact, Tree

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• In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!

  Glenn Danzig

  Crazy, Japan, Years

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  Gay, People, Tolerance

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• Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.

  Tim Ferriss

  Suicide, Media, Two

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• My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

  Andy Warhol

  Cities, Long, Would Be

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

  Pete Townshend

  Children, Reality, Soul

  Song: Hiding Out, Album: White City: A Novel

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• Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

  Don Kelly

  Cities, Hurricanes, Percent

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• When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing.

  Chuck Norris

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.newson6.com

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• We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking problems , and we-d do a lot better to look up a little bit because there is that great aerial highway that-s always ready to go, you Don't have to pave it and the benefits are very great.

  Paul MacCready

  Two, Looks, Jam

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• That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.

  Kathy Ireland

  Important, Stopping, Radar

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• There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

  Will Rogers

  Simple, Government, Car

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• There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Gossip, Competition

  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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• One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

  Jarvis Cocker

  World, Way, Problem

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

  Thomas Paine

  Two, Numbers, Individual

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.169, Ravenio Books

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• Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

  David Riesman

  Men, Frustrated, Jam

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Dream, Moving, Book

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

  Drew Curtis

  Running, Stories, Pay

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• Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

  Juan Williams

  Nfl, Political, Jam

  "The Perils of Political Paralysis". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, War, Holiday

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• If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.

  Groucho Marx

  Believe, Earthquakes, Smog

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• There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

  Joe Montana

  Sitting

  "Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. July 6, 2010.

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• Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?

  Dov Davidoff

  Fall, Eye, Dating

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• I think ever since Numbers ended, I've been trying to find a way to get back in a situation like that. It was lovely to drive in traffic with other people going to their jobs every day.

  David Krumholtz

  Jobs, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking...They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.

  Robert Hormats

  Effort, Community, Drug

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• Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Life And Love, Business

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

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