"Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Character Quotes #Years Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!”

Source : "Fictional character: John Blutarsky (Bluto)". "Animal House", www.imdb.com. July 27, 1978.
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
“The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.”
“Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!”
“The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.”
“When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!”
“Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.”
“No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.”

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