1900 Immigration Quotes & Sayings

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous. — Thomas McGuane

Freedom is measured by the amount of control you have over the things upon which you are dependant. — C. Wright Mills

Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science. — Rebecca Goldstein

Because there are things you do for people you've known your whole life. You let them save you, you put them in your books, and you let each other begin again, clean. — Erika Swyler

Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note. — Frederick Weisel

We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's sounds like theirs; and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up. — Lynne Truss

Although the Singularity has many faces, its most important implication is this: our technology will match and then vastly exceed the refinement and suppleness of what we regard as the best of human traits. — Ray Kurzweil

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. — Mario Puzo

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. — Don Roff