“But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.”
Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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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Paul Virilio (1932–2018) French philosopher
Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30
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Stephen R. Covey book First Things First
First Things First (1994), Disputed
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John Moffat book Reinventing Gravity
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