Top 100 Quotes About Highways

#1. Highways are full of careless drivers who are always too close in front of you.

Sam Ewing

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#2. Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Jane D. Hull

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#3. What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity? What would become of old women reading by candlelight? What would become of his own life-illusion, his secret 'mythology,' in such a world?

John Cowper Powys

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#4. Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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#5. One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

Zoroaster

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#6. I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight
complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets;
I am going to push it across three dark highways
or coast along under 600,000 faint stars.

Gerald Stern

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#7. I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

Sandra Cisneros

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#8. Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

Bethany McLean

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#9. This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Joe Biden

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#10. I got highways for stretchmarks
See where I've grown.

Ani DiFranco

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#11. Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Jonathan Raban

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#12. Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.

Arthur Capper

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#13. If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Warren Rudman

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#14. What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation.

Anne Lamott

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#15. If we're going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.

Enrique Penalosa

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#16. There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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#17. She was my compass. I was her legend. We were the rivers and the lakes, the highways and the back roads, the mountains and the borders. I finally knew where I was. Charlotte was my You Are Here point on the map of life.

Julia Kent

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#18. A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.

Fred DeLuca

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#19. The Bible is a whole series of highways, all leading toward God. And when the text has been illuminated and the believer of the text knows that God is the end toward which he is moving, then that man has real faith.

A.W. Tozer

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#20. With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal.

T.F. Hodge

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#21. I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

Max Beckmann

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#22. Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

John Mellencamp

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#23. It was at this time that people found along the roads and highways little children, tiny vagabonds who refused to grow up. Little girls of seven years knelt and prayed that they might not grow older, for puberty seemed to them a sign of mortality.

Marcel Schwob

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#24. In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

Milan Kundera

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#25. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...

Tom Althouse

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#26. Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Thomas Frank

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#27. Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

Henry David Thoreau

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#28. Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Steven Wright

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#29. What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J.G. Ballard

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#30. The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Charles De Montesquieu

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#31. My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents

Jim Hodges

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#32. For some thoughts, which sure would be the most beautiful, vanish before we can rightly scan their features; as though a god, travelling by our green highways, should but ope the door, give one smiling look into the house, and go again for ever.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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#33. We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

Robert Reich

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#34. Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

Beth Moore

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#35. I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph.

Gloria Steinem

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#36. I dream of a Digital India where high-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation.

Narendra Modi

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#37. I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.

Manuel Moroun

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#38. Of course, now that we've made the glorious Fourth safe by banning fireworks," he said, "people take to the highways in droves and kill each other with their automobiles. I suppose I should take you down to the shore today but frankly I'm afraid to. I wouldn't drive anywhere for all the tea in China

Keith Robertson

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#39. Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

Alistair Cooke

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#40. Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A.E. Housman

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#41. Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

John Norquist

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#42. Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#43. Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

John Loengard

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#44. The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

J. Rufus Fears

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#45. I will be dead in five years' time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.

Jimi Hendrix

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#46. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#47. Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn't like that at all.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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#48. I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

Charles Kuralt

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#49. Take the back roads instead of the highways.

Minnie Pearl

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#50. We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

Corrine Brown

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#51. We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.

Nick Lampson

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#52. I knew what slant of light would make you turn over. It was then I felt the highways slide out of my hands. I remembered the old men in the west side cafe, dealing dominoes like magical charms.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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#53. The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.

Will Rogers

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#54. Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari.

Roberto Bolano

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#55. By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

Bob Menendez

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#56. At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.

John Wesley

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#57. If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

Gustavo Gutierrez

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#58. Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways.

Wesley L. Duewel

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#59. Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.

Byron Dorgan

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#60. I lay on my back and stared up at that unseeing, uncaring sky. I doubted God lived up there; I doubted heaven was up there, too.
God and heaven were down there on the ground, in the gardens, in the forests, in the parks, on the seashores, on the lakes, and riding the highways, going somewhere!

V.C. Andrews

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#61. I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

Cory Booker

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#62. Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

Gary Wright

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#63. Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks.

Narendra Modi

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#64. Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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#65. The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#66. Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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#67. So how are you supposed to learn how to drive with this guy yapping at you? My brothers were the ones who got to practice. So when you have to get on the expressway, you're afraid. That's what I think. That's why I take back routes on two-lane highways.

Sandra Cisneros

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#68. Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

Victoria Woodhull

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#69. America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Christopher Dodd

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#70. What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

Samuel Beckett

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#71. At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

Steve Finley

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#72. And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

Max Ehrmann

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#73. I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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#74. It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.

C. JoyBell C.

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#75. We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

Frederick Lenz

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#76. People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Christo

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#77. For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda
patriot on board!" I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.

Bill Maher

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#78. Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

George W. Bush

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#79. I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.

David

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#80. A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

Jim Jeffords

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#81. The dead have highways." Clive Barker

Clive Barker

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#82. During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Sammy Davis Jr.

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#83. Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Bill Lipinski

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#84. We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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#85. I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

Arj Barker

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#86. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylvester

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#87. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.

Pema Chodron

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#88. For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#89. Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Dennis Miller

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#90. We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

Jerry Costello

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#91. With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Dennis Hastert

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#92. We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

Corrine Brown

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#93. India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).

Narendra Modi

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#94. In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

Frederick Lenz

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#95. More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

Ben Shneiderman

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#96. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Fritz Todt

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#97. Guided by film ... we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.

Siegfried Kracauer

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#98. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

John Perkins

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#99. It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.

Narendra Modi

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#100. A town that does not keep its dead out of sight, that leaves people where they died, on highways and byways, in parks and parking lots, is not a town but a hell. The fact that this hell reflects our life experience in a more realistic and essentially truer way is of no consequence.

Karl Ove Knausgard

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