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Letter "R" » roads
«To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.»
Author: Charles Kuralt
(Correspondent, Journalist)
| Keywords:
impression, papers, roads, small town, The News, towns
«When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.»
«The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.»
«Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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«We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.»
Author: Rachel Carson
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«Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Travel
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diverge, diverged, I i, less-traveled, roads, took, traveled, wood
«You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.»
«What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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