"I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration."

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Source : "Q&A: Lincoln Chafee". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 2008.

Lincoln Chafee

#Administration Quotes #Born Quotes

“It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.”
“But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.”
“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”
“There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.”

Source : Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1926). “Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory”
“A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.”
“Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.”
“It's never too late to begin a life or a book.”
“Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.78, Oxford University Press

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