"Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them."

-- Drew Gilpin Faust

#Past Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”
“What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.”

Source : "African Debt". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. June 12, 2005.
“I'm as proud and assertive in my Quebec identity as any Quebecer. I believe it's to Quebec's advantage to be part of the Canadian federation. But I will be extremely strong and forceful in defending Quebec's interests within Canada.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.”

Source : Sean Hannity (2002). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism”, p.8, Dubois Publishing
“It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy”

Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.19
“Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.”
“You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.”
“I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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