"The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination."

-- Richard Hofstadter

#Character Quotes #Evil Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false”
“I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with”
“Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.”
“I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.”
“In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend Iâ€™m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. â€˜I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,â€™ they say. â€˜Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what sheâ€™s done to our family.â€™ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hughâ€™s loft. â€˜You will be mine,â€™ I commanded.”
“Right attitudes produces right action”
“Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.”
“I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.”

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