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the wheel - actual or implied every image is about wheels

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” Dave Barry



Wheels - do you think about them often? They are everywhere and they both add to and diminish our lives. Me

Do you have wheels tonight?


Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~Ellen Goodman


“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel” Ivan Turgenev



When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells


The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard



When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West


Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Helle, Jr



When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. ~Diane Ackerman



“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price." Benjamin Franklin


"Do you know what the teacher is doing? He is manufacturing minds. He is the wheelwright, the weaver, the blacksmith of that work in which he is God's helper — the future." Victor Hugo



Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. ~Erich Fromm



Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~Aldous Huxley



"Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing.Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing." -Life Is Just A Tire Swing Jimmy Buffett



This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in. Itzhak Perlman



“Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” Dwight David Eisenhower


“True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.” Edward Hoagland


Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. ~Jean Arp

“The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it,” Ursula K. LeGuin