"Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!"

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Theophile Gautier

#Race Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Progress Quotes

“In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.”

Source : Interview with Dave Muller, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2009.
“Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.”
“I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.”
“Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.”
“You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.”

Source : "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.
“A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.”
“Confidence is one of the sexiest things.”
“I say to the grown-ups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'”

Source : "'Bill Nye the Science Guy' to Debate Evolution at Kentucky's Creation Museum" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. January 3, 2014.

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