"Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down."

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Source : David Starr Jordan (1910). “The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics”

Collis Potter Huntington

#Cynicism Quotes #Altruism Quotes

“Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.”
“High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.”
“We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves”

Source : Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese
“You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.”
“The real bond and real love is something that is actually worth fighting for.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That has never worked and it won't work this time. It doesn't produce venture quality returns, and it never will.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not.”
“Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility of the scene was impressive; not the slightest animation or vitality anywhere. It was like a mental image of our globe in its primitive state - a spectacle of Chaos. Around is ice and snow and the remnants of internal fires; above, a sinister sky; below the sombre sea; and over all, the silence of the sepulchre!”

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