"More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system."

-- Karl Taylor Compton

#Past Quotes #Years Quotes #America Quotes

“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”

Source : "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.
“I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.”
“The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.”
“I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.”
“... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.”
“We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.”
“'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Sep 20, 2014
“I live a normal life, I take care of our baby, I cook, and I look forward to the weekend so I can spend some time with my husband. It's the kind of change we all secretly dream of, but which isn't always easy to deal with.”

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