"I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress."

-- Frank A. Vanderlip

#Discovery Quotes #Effort Quotes #Historical Quotes

“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
“Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end.”
“The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1886). “Lectures and Essays”
“I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson”
“The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.”
“What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.”
“It was like an explosion. You just don't get ready for it. I don't even know how you can, because you just don't expect it. For me, up until that point, you would do a gig, and then you'd go out and try to find the next job.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.”

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