"When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn."

-- Gerd de Ley

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Majority Quotes

“So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.”
“If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.”
“Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.”
“I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.”
“Love is fun but, it is not going to pay the bills.”
“I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.”
“We have heard that we are all missionaries. Every member ... is or ought to be a missionary; ... as members of the Church, having pledged ourselves to the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ we become missionaries. That is part of the responsibility of every member of the Church”
“In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.”

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