"Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them."

-- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

#History Quotes #Winner Quotes #Made Quotes

“The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a privilege denied to everyone else, even including nonprofit organizations? None! My contention is that with the churches exempted from property taxation, you and I have to pay that much more in taxes to make up for what they're not contributing.”
“Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.”
“People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.”

Source : "The Hulk is back and ready if needed". Interview with Chris Varias, www.wtsp.com. December 31, 2014.
“Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.”
“The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.”
“Success has many fathers, failure many sons.”
“Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.”
“I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.”

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