Two Wheels Quotes

• Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the cart doesn't go. If you have one wheel called socialism, it doesn't go. If you have only one wheel called capitalism, it doesn't go. It needs two wheels. These two wheels are capitalism and socialism.

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  Benjamin Creme

  Thinking   Two   Needs  

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

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  David Levithan

  Two   Important   Wheels  

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• I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

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  Jimmie Johnson

  Two   Dirt   Wheels  

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• I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long." -Nudge

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  James Patterson

  Two   Long   Nudge  

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• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

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  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational   Country   Men  

  Leon Trotsky (1932). “The History of the Russian Revolution ...”

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• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

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  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise   Lying   Science  

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

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  Victoria Pendleton

  Cycling   Two   People  

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• Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

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  Dante Alighieri

  Eye   Heaven   Wheels  

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• The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

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  Kuroda Nagamasa

  Art   War   Two  

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