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“In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.”
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“I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old”
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“In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.”
Source : Statement on the July 1943 bombings of Hamburg. "The Valour and the Horror: The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War". Book by Merrily Weisbord and Merilyn Simonds Mohr, p. 107, 1991.
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“The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.”
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“The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.”
Source : Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.
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“Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.”
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“Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!”
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“I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.”
