Quotes with railway

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

  E. M. Forster
  English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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• The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.

  The First World War (1963) p. 20

  A. J. P. Taylor
  British historian (1906 - 1990)
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• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

  Baba Kalyani
  Indian businessman (1949 - )
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• [To a railway stationmaster:] We must leave exactly on time.... From now on everything must function to perfection.

  Benito Mussolini
  Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• thousand-year
• stationmaster
• conclusion
• locomotive
• everything
• perfection

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