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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old- fashioned machine, it e... - MORE The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old- fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

J.G. Ballard

cars

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Old people working. Making a gift of garden.
Or washing a car, so some one else may ride. Old people working. Making a gift of garden.
Or washing a car, so some one else may ride.

Gwendolyn Brooks

old age | work | gardens and gardening

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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous syste... - MORE A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Jean Cocteau

cars

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Professor Fate: My apologies. There's a polar bear in our car. Professor Fate: My apologies. There's a polar bear in our car.

Arthur Ross

bears | apologies

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I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm... - MORE I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.

Lyn St. James

race-car driving

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Fifty years from now, it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your ban... - MORE Fifty years from now, it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like, But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child.

Anonymous

parenthood

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A really tight friendship is when you start to really care about the person. If he gets sick, you kind of start worrying about him... - MORE A really tight friendship is when you start to really care about the person. If he gets sick, you kind of start worrying about him—or if he gets hit by a car. An everyday friend, you say, I know that kid, he's all right, and you don't really think much of him. But a close friend you worry about more than yourself. Well, maybe not more, but about the same.

Anonymous Fifteen-Year-Old Boy

adolescents' friendships and peer groups | children's voices | children's friendships

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"End of tomorrow.
Don't try to start the car or look deeper... - MORE "End of tomorrow.
Don't try to start the car or look deeper
Into the eternal wimpling of the sky: luster
On luster, transparency floated onto the topmost layer
Until the whole thing overflows like a silver
Wedding cake or Christmas tree, in a cascade of tears."

John Ashbery

endings | sky

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The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one mi... - MORE The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

W.H. Auden

men: masculinity

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than ... - MORE I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Jim Bakker

belief

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