"... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?"

-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Earth Quotes #Republican Quotes #Prosperity Quotes

“I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.”
“Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.23, Harvard University Press
“Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.”
“You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.”
“Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.”
“It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.”
“Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?”

Source : "The Story of Bottled Water", www.imdb.com. 2010.
“There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.”

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