Carl G. Fisher quotes
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“The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)”
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“We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.”
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“Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. [Here is] a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.”
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“The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.”
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“Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.”
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“Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.”
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Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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