“But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.”
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.”
Deliberately misattributed for comic effect in the opening of the film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
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Olly Blackburn
Film director and screenwriter
[Edinburgh International Film Festival, www.edfilmfest.org.uk, http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/2008/06/self-portrait-olly-blackburn, Olly Blackburn, News - Self portrait: Olly Blackburn, 20 June 2008, 23 February 2012]
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Felix Frankfurter
(1882–1965) American judge
First Iowa Coop. v. Power Comm'n., 328 U.S. 152, 188 (1946).
Judicial opinions
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Isaac Asimov
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Paul Virilio
(1932–2018) French philosopher
Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30
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First Things First (1994), Disputed
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