Quotes with railways

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• As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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• People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

  John Betjeman
  English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  H.G. Wells
  British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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• We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

  Baba Kalyani
  Indian businessman (1949 - )
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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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Subjects in these quotes:

• imperfection
• benefactors
• embankments
• engineering
• increasing
• automotive

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