"l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake."

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Source : "Aircraft Carrier: The Commission Comes To a Fork In the Ocean". Remarks by Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, at the Practicing Law Institute's 30th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, New York, November 05, 1998.

Robert Moses

#Fear Quotes #Hands Quotes #Sake Quotes

“I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of selfâ€”evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the â€˜instantly availableâ€™.”
“After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.”
“It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.”
“Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.”

Source : Source: ncac.org
“My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'”
“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”
“These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.”
“Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.”

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