"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

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Source : 25 Years vol. 2, ch. 18 (1925)

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

#War Quotes #Light Quotes #Europe Quotes

“People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.”
“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”
“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.”
“It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.”

Source : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.55, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.”

Source : "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!”
“Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.
“It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates.”

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