"The goal of mass transit is to convince……" — Brendan I. Koerner
"The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room."
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12 Quotes by Brendan I. Koerner
Brendan I. Koerner has 12 quotes on this site.
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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5,…
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and…
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were…
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life…
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government.…
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Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop…
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light…
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s.…
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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a…
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized…
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More Abandon Quotes
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one of 715 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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