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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
Education
Man
School
Car
Gone
Steal
Never
He
Freight
May
Who
Whole
Railroad
University
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
Mariah Carey
Light
Hopefully
Freight
End
End Of The Tunnel
Train
Tunnel
The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.
Alan Huffman
Slow
Maddening
Delays
More
Hour
Particularly
Freight
Enable
Pass
Trains
Pace
Which
Rail
I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.
Anthony Doerr
Sports
Heart
Age
Sadness
Young
Attached
Freight
Cleveland
Got
Up
Train
Young Age
Grew
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
Money
Long
Way
More
Long Way
Roads
Mass
Highways
Beyond
Freight
Passenger
Go
Transit
Bridge
Gaps
Rail
Funding
Need
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
G. Willow Wilson
Me
You
Writing
Ongoing
Steer
Driving
Feels
Like
Freight
Pray
Train
Downhill
Series
On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race - and there aren't many - a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.
Gordon Smith
Needs
People
Speak
Care
Consistency
Own
Otherwise
Tribute
Carrying
Find
Could
Emotional
He
Retirement
Freight
Issues
His
Senator
Race
Much
Speaking
Many
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod
Will
Profit
Admire
Small
Put
Freight
Greater
Ship
Your
Large
Larger
Load
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.
James H. Clark
Matter
Internet
Otherwise
Claim
See
He
Missed
Like
Freight
How
How Much
Coming
Hear
Train
May
Much
Bill
Bill Gates
Gates
I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.
Jamie Hyneman
Attached
Horse
Like
Freight
Wagon
Race
My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
Johann Lamont
Life
Old
Father
Uncle
Out
Crossing
Small
Freight
Sailing
His
Boats
Then
Worked
Inner
I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
Kurt Vile
Job
Air
Worst
Had
Driving
Freight
Wacky
Company
As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.
Marshall Brickman
Director
Cinematic
Projects
Carried
Would
Would-Be
More
Develop
Freight
Dialogue
Were
Camera
Where
Wanted
Much
Inherently
Started
In the past, due to faulty economic policies like freight equalisation, resource-rich states like Odisha have suffered from the discriminatory policies of the Centre.
Naveen Patnaik
Past
States
Faulty
Economic
Economic Policies
Like
Freight
Policies
Due
Discriminatory
In The Past
Centre
Suffered
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.
Peter Beard
Day
Me
You
Black
Down
Everything
Sun
Through
Feel
Know
Freight
Sort
Blinded
Coming
Go
Noon
Chicken
Walked
Get
Did
Popping
Bright
Elephants
Elevator
Bones
I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.
Rose George
Nation
Find
Entire
Percent
Parent
More
Equal
Freight
None
Sales
Denmark
Ships
Fame
Than
Oil
Use
Coca-Cola
Fascinating
Company
Largest
Hyperloop can improve life dramatically for the 16 million people in the greater Moscow area, cutting their commute to a fraction of what it is today. Our longer term vision is to work with Russia to implement a transformative new Silk Road: a cargo Hyperloop that whisks freight containers from China to Europe in a day.
Shervin Pishevar
Life
Work
Today
Day
People
Vision
Cargo
Our
Dramatically
Silk
Russia
Area
Road
Implement
Longer
Term
New
Moscow
Freight
Greater
Improve
Transformative
China
Cutting
Commute
Europe
Million
Million People
Fraction
Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.
Soren Skou
Big
Market
Our
Market Share
Weak
Cost
Rates
Having
Network
Share
Part
Maintaining
Freight
Comfortable
Always
Priority
Been
Big Part
Means
Lowest
Growing
Largest
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
Susan Faludi
You
Women
Everybody
Neighborhood
Would
Divorced
Like
Freight
Got
Built
Been
Wonder
Train
Hit
Movement
Happened
Suburbs
I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
Valentino Garavani
Details
Staying
Over
Like
Freight
Track
Always
Am
Years
Train
Same
Them
Working
Twisting
Playing
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
Moving On
Quality
Nation
Believe
Our
Ability
Percent
More
Highways
Economists
Freight
Tied
Than
Infrastructure
Moving
Internationally
Compete
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