"I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves."

-- Jon Meacham

#Children Quotes #Believe Quotes #Years Quotes

“Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement”

Source : "Rice says U.S. still supports Annan". www.washingtontimes.com. September 9, 2005.
“I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.”
“When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?”
“There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative summary, 104 page campaign financial disclosure. One year of tax returns, reportedly - we've seen the pictures, 12,000 pages. And tax returns are replete with his foreign interests, including, perhaps, his Russian interests. That may be the reason he doesn't want to turn over his taxes.”
“Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.”
“If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?”
“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are”
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.”

Source : "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

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