Dysgenic Selection Quotes

#1. Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#3. It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact; but that is what the grace of God is given to us for.

D.L. Moody

#4. If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.

Nagaru Tanigawa

#5. My hope is my joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

George VI

#7. We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.

Roger Waters

#8. I had always thought of my vagina as an anatomical vacuum randomly sucking up particles and objects from the surrounding environment.

Eve Ensler

#9. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Arthur Rimbaud

#10. He laughed to himself he said because if he did not laugh he would cry.

Michael Morpurgo

#11. Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Fear nothing; the Spirit of Love will give you wings.

Katy Tackes