"One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them."

-- Bill Nye

#Hearing Quotes #Drawbacks Quotes

“We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!”
“In Paris, friend of Bequerelâ€™s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.”
“I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.”
“At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.”
“In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.”

Source : Once Around the Sun (1951) 8 Feb.
“Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.”
“I hope to see a more diversified country, where people can view everyone as equal individuals, where people can start seeing our young black and brown boys and girls and valuing their lives as we would value other lives.”
“The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.”

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