"The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well."

-- Ivan Illich

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“When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!”
“Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.”
“Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.”
“Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.”
“A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
“Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.”
“New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.”

Source : "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.
“Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.”

Source : Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Eternal Wonder: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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