"We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex."

-- Abraham Flexner

#Sex Quotes #America Quotes #Race Quotes

“Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.”
“Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.”
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

Source : Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?”
“Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.”
“History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

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