"Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people."

-- Robert Wyatt

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Source : Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.
“As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 155, 1989.
“A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.”
“We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.”

Source : "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.
“I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.”
“It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation”
“All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.”

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