"It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press."

-- J. Maarten Troost

#War Quotes #College Quotes #Tea Quotes

“Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?”
“My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.”
“When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching”
“God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.”
“We can only avoid the traps we can see.”
“Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.”
“People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.”
“Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.”

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