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Quote by Samuel Hoffenstein
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; o

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? – Samuel Hoffenstein

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The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. – James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960

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Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life is too short for traffic. – Dan Bellack

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Fasten your seat belts, its going to be a bumpy night! As Margo Channing in All About Eve – Bette Davis

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