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r_text[0] = "“Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.”
-Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle";
r_text[1] = "“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.”
-Iris Murdoch,
The Red and the Green";
r_text[2] = "“Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.”
-Elizabeth West,
Hovel in the Hills";
r_text[3] = ""When I go biking [...] I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.”
-Diane Ackerman";
r_text[4] = ""The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon."
-Bill Strickland,
The Quotable Cyclist";
r_text[5] = "“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. "
-J.B. Jackson";
r_text[6] = "“Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
-Albert Einstein";
r_text[7] = "“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. ”
-Ernest Hemingway";
r_text[8] = "“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”
-John F. Kennedy";
r_text[9] = "“Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.”
-H.G. Wells";
r_text[10] = "“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.,
Spring in Washington";
r_text[11] = "“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.”
-Grant Petersen";
r_text[12] = "“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.”
-William Saroyan";
r_text[13] = "“The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it, start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.”
-Richard Ballentine";
r_text[14] = "“Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”
-Mark Twain";
r_text[15] = "“ I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
-Susan B Anthony, 1896";
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