Short Track Speed

Famous quotes containing the words short, track and/or speed:

    Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)