"Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull."

--

Charles Kettering

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Skulls Quotes

“The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.”
“The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.”

Source : John Train (1994). “The craft of investing”, HarperCollins Publishers
“It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there.”
“See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.”
“I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.”

Source : "10 Questions: Jil Sander". Interview with Lauren Goldstein, content.time.com. September 9, 2003.
“I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!”
“It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.”

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