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Letter "A" » automobiles
«Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to think it illogical to drive automobiles to gyms while doing their best to avoid walking»
Author: Dave Wilson
| About:
Exercise
| Keywords:
automobiles, exercising, fitness, gym, gyms, illogical, obsession, the USA, U.S.A., USA
«Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s»
Author: Geoffrey Perrett
| Keywords:
appearing, arrested, attire, attired, automobiles, beaches, cigarettes, First world, First World War, for example, outlandish, shorts, smoking, stockings, world war
«Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.»
Author: Paul A. Samuelson
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
automobiles, canal, canals, it An, profitable, railroads, sooner or later
«Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles»
Author: Paul Fussell
| About:
America and Americans,
Anxiety
| Keywords:
advertise, affiliation, affiliations, anxiety, automobiles, college, Colleges and universities, prompt, prompting, prompts, rear, rear window, status, university
«If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside»
Author: Robert Cringely
| About:
Automobiles,
Computers,
Evolution
| Keywords:
automobiles, a million, computer, cost, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, development, explode, explodes, exploding, followed, gallon, gallons, killing, miles, miles per gallon, million, PER, per year, rolls, Rolls Royce, roll over, roll up
«The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
adolescent, adolescents, at best, automobiles, cathartic, cathartics, intellectually, sold, toothpaste
«The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
automobiles, bonded, bonding, bonds, empathy, friendships, houses, in bonds, in stock, lands, measured, mercy, monetary, most-valuable, state, stocked, stocked with, stocking, stocks, terms, valuable, with mercy
«Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
air-conditioned, Air conditioning, automobiles, Brooklyn, fullness, furthermore, inhibition, inhibitions, in Brooklyn, In the House, owned, served, stoops
«Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
automobiles, dining, dining room, egotism, free of, literally, rooms, smelly, stairs, stations, wider
«Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.»
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