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Wait, Wait, Peter, Don’t Run From Me

Mission: To promote driving less so all may live more.

This post offers some quotes from Peter Sagal’s The Incomplete Book of Running (2018), a confessional book, both humorous and insightful.

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Author Louis BurkhardtPosted on June 17, 2020December 23, 2020Categories bicycle, health, running, terrorismLeave a comment on Wait, Wait, Peter, Don’t Run From Me
Quotes & Notes
"The paradox of transportation in the late 20th Century is that while it became possible to travel to the moon, it also became impossible, in many cases, to walk across the street"—Joell Vanderwagen (Quoted in "Should Law Subsidize Driving?" by Gregory Shill.)

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