"Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

William J. Mitchell

#Safety Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Gasoline Quotes

“You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.”
“A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.”

Source : Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
“Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!”
“I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.”

Source : "Ferraro Recounts Second Thoughts On Her Nomination, Citing Scrutiny" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 1984.
“You need to make sure you're going exactly where your guy goes in press coverage. In zone, you can read the quarterback and his eyes a bit to determine where he's going. You don't get the opportunity in press coverage to read the quarterback, so it's all on you.”

Source : Source: www.nfl.com
“Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.”

Source : Lindley Murray (1841). “English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners with an Appendix by Lindley Murray”, p.176
“If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.”
“the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books

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