"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."

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Source : Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

Arthur Erickson

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“I believe keeping families together is in the best interest of the United States. And in the past the level of deportations, and the mindlessness with which they've been carried out, that's hurt the United States.”
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

Source : Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."
“I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.”
“Whatever it takes its fine.”
“Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!”

Source : Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”
“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
“I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!”
“A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.”

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