"In the country, our best years economically were from the 1940s into the 1970s, when we had the best public works - we call it infrastructure today - in the history of the world. Highways, bridges, water and sewer, community colleges and medical research. We don't do that the way we used to."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Paul Solman

#Country Quotes #College Quotes #Water Quotes

“Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Meg Whitman from Oct 06, 2011
“If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.”
“The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform,”
“Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.”

Source : "The Office: Spooked". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2011.
“Love is illegal - but not hate. That you can do anywhere, anytime, to anybody. But if you want a little warmth, a little tenderness, a shoulder to cry on, a smile to cuddle up with, you have to hide in dark corners, like a criminal.”

Source : "Fictional character: Moustache". "Irma la Douce", www.imdb.com. 1963.
“There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”

Source : "Hereditary Genius". Book by Francis Galton, p. 414, 1869.
“Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.”
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

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