Hippiefest Ruth Quotes

#1. The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

Paul A. Baran

#2. There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes ... we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

Allen Klein

#3. The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.

Joan Collins

#4. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Edward Albee

#7. I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

Catherine Bell

#8. Instinctively and empirically we know that stories have the power and the potential to capture hearts and imaginations - we're just not sure how or why this is so.

Sarah Arthur

#9. What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?

Scott Watson

#10. There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

Hernan Cortes

#11. Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples.

David McCullough

#12. The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

Noam Chomsky

#13. We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Ronald Reagan