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Letter "T" » transit
«A thought is an idea in transit.»
«It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.»
«The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
American culture, American System, Branded, fare, flavors, free of, fuel, gallons, highway, highway system, Howard, Howard Johnson, improved, isolated, Johnson, local, nationally, pilgrims, speedway, superhighway, superhighways, towns, transit, traverse, traversed, traversing
«The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| Keywords:
biographies, oblivion, spasm, spasms, transit
«Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
abortion, at best, block out, comparable, compulsion, hewing, hewn, in full view, knocked, limbs, sprung, transit, yields
«RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
devices, enabling, expedition, expeditions, get away, hold off, permits, railroad, railroads, transit
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