"If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect."

-- Jacques Yves Cousteau

#Respect Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Water Quotes

“I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.”
“Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.”
“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.”

Source : Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press
“Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.”

Source : Ezekiel Hopkins, Charles William Quick (1863). “Memoir of the author, and expositions of the Lord's prayer and the decalogue”, p.275
“The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.”
“But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.”
“The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.”

Source : Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.401, Cato Institute
“Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.”

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