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Letter "G" » gas
«Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.»
«It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?»
«I'm not a star!!! A star is notthing but a ball of gas!!!»
«I have pissed in the Rhine, now send me gas!»
«It took hundreds of years for these woods to grow, and they leveled it in a week. It's gone. After they build new houses here, they'll have to widen the roads and put up gas stations, and pretty soon the whole area will just be a big strip. Eventually there won't be a nice spot left anywhere. I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.»
Author: Bill Watterson
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Author)
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Keywords:
anywhere,
area,
eventually,
gas,
gases,
gas station,
houses,
hundreds,
inherit,
inheriting,
inherits,
leveled,
Nice,
on the spot,
put up,
refuse,
roads,
spot,
stations,
strip,
The New Year,
The Station,
took,
week,
widen,
widened,
widens,
woods
«Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.»
«If a ragnar?k would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art ? and I'd go back to trees..»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Author,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arc,
arcs,
Back to,
burn,
garages,
gas,
gases,
go back,
I go,
lit,
shabbier,
shabby,
slum,
slumming,
slums,
suburb,
suburbs,
The Works,
trees
«I think its ironic that for once dad's butt prevented the release of toxic gas»
«I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.»
Author: Stephen Wright
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Actor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
accelerator,
accelerators,
accelerator pedal,
behind,
brake,
brakes,
car,
gas,
gases,
gone,
hit,
hooked,
hooking,
hook up,
hook up with,
lights,
pedal,
pedaling,
stop,
The Cars
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
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Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
Almost always,
analysis,
arrest,
cut across,
gas,
get a look,
headlong,
introspective,
rush,
section,
sections,
seizing,
spinning,
spinning top,
The Conclusion,
turn up