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Cyclists thus found their hobby not as pleasant as it could be, to say the least, and the League of American Wheelmen committed to doing something about it. A year after Fisher opened his store, the league launched a magazine, Good Roads, that became an influential mouthpiece for road improvement. Its articles were widely reprinted, which attracted members who didn't even own bikes; at the group's peak, Fisher and more than 102,000 others were on the rolls, and the Good Roads Movement was too big for politicians to ignore. Yes, the demand for roads was pedal-powered, and a national cause even before the first practical American car rolled out of a Chicopee, Massachusetts, shop in 1893. A few months ahead of the Duryea Motor Wagon's debut, Congress authorized the secretary of agriculture to "make inquiry regarding public roads" and to investigate how they might be improved. — Earl Swift

Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take. — Evita Ochel

I just bet Dad another thousand that you'll be back by this Christmas." - I — Whitney G.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you can't afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can't afford the zoo, go see a politician. — Anonymous

The only time it doesn't help to imagine the sky is when you're thirty thousand feet in the air with nowhere to go but down — Jennifer E. Smith

As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch. — Muhammadu Buhari

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. — Donald Barthelme

Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk. — Pat Conroy

I'm ready to create. — John Galliano

She didn't mean anything, Kasia said, brave brave brave, the way I hadn't been for her. — Naomi Novik