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If Amsterdam or Leningrad vie for the title of Venice of the North, then Venice - what compliment is high enough? Venice, with all her civilisation and ancient beauty, Venice with her addiction to curious aquatic means of transport, yes, my friends, Venice is the Henley of the South.
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Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

Odilon Redon

— Quoted in: Jean-François Guillou (2000), Great Paintings of the World, p. 190

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Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.

claude lévi-strauss

— Chapter 9 : Guanabara, p.86

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The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

wyndham lewis

— America and Cosmic Man (New York: Doubleday, [1948] 1949) p. 21.

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The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

camille paglia

— p. 37 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))

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Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

vladimir putin

— Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, May 10, 2006

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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.

j. r. d. tata

— 'On November 2, 1943, J.R.D. Tata spoke to the Bombay Rotary Club.

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If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?


— Chapter 3, Trade, p. 96 (The Economic Illusion (1984))

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A great deal of the thinking [in Organizational Development] has been influenced by cybernetics and information theory, though this has been used as much to extend the scope of closed-system as to improve the sophistication of open system formulations. It was von Bertalanffy (1950) who, in terms of the general transport equation which he introduced, first fully disclosed the importance of openness or closedness to the environment as a means of distinguishing living organisms from inanimate objects.


— Fred Emery and Eric Trist (1963) "The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments". In: Human Relations, 18: p. 22

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An economic system based on private, rather than state, ownership of businesses, factories, transport services, etc, with free competition and profit-making.


— Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton (1992) Chambers Pocket Dictionary. p. 128. Lemma "Capitalism"

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( Capitalism is) an economic system based on private, rather than state, ownership of businesses, factories, transport services, etc, with free competition and profit-making.


— Allwords.com: Lemma "Capitalism", 2006

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A great deal of the thinking [in Organizational Development] has been influenced by cybernetics and information theory, though this has been used as much to extend the scope of closed-system as to improve the sophistication of open system formulations. It was von Bertalanffy (1950) who, in terms of the general transport equation which he introduced, first fully disclosed the importance of openness or closedness to the environment as a means of distinguishing living organisms from inanimate objects.


— Fred Emery and Eric Trist (1963) "The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments". In: Human Relations, 18: p. 22

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The dictionary definition of communication ... includes the communication of goods and supplies... But transport of goods is not communication in the sense we are adopting here, and does not raise the same subtle and difficult questions. What "goods" do we exchange when we send messages to one another?


— Colin Cherry (1957)On Human Communication. p. 9

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!


— Charles Dickens (1836) Pickwick Papers Chapter 28.

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The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.


— Edith Hamilton The Greek Way (1930) Ch. 1

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Public transport is functionality for people not engineers .


— Johan Neerman “Het Laatste Nieuws” (December 2001), p.16

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Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.


— Odilon Redon, quoted in: Jean-François Guillou (2000) Great Paintings of the World. p. 190

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There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter.

fran lebowitz

— Social Studies, "Lesson One" (1981)

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It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.

jean chrétien

— Straight From The Heart, Chapter Four: "The Politics Of Business" (1985, pg. 92).

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I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.

bradley joseph

— Official Bio and Reflections Bio

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If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

robert kuttner

— The Economic Illusion, Chapter 3, "Trade", p. 96 (1984).

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Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.

isabel paterson

— The God of the Machine (1943, pg. 32)

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I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

john prescott

— As quoted in "Prescott Points Buses to Fast Lane" by Paul Brown, in The Guardian (6 June 1997, p. 10).

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It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

flora thompson

— Chapter Two - A House is built

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The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

Alain de Botton

— pp. 15-16 (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009))

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To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

Nikos Kazantzakis

— On the Aegean Sea, in Ch. 2

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Every percentage point increase in homegrown renewable energy makes us that much more energy secure. The progress in electricity is encouraging, but growth is not yet strong enough in renewable heat and transport to meet the government's objectives


— Nina Skorupska, chief executive of the REA about British energy policy in June 2014

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Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.


— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love. Hope. Eclogue II, line 41

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transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.


— Antoine de Saint Exupéry Terre des Hommes (1939) Translated into English as Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)

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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.


— J. R. D. Tata 'On November 2, 1943, J.R.D. Tata spoke to the Bombay Rotary Club.

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