"The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past."

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Source : Gladys Hasty Carroll (1957). “Sing Out the Glory”

Gladys Hasty Carroll

#Future Quotes #Past Quotes #Given Quotes

“A man can't just sit around.”

Source : "July 2, 1982: Up, Up and Away With 42 Balloons" by Tony Long, www.wired.com. July 2, 2009.
“The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.”
“In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.”
“I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.”
“Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times.”
“I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.”
“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.”

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