Compensated Emancipation Quotes & Sayings

[A]s a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. [ ... ] Today [ ... ] my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful. — Stephen Jay Gould

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. — Meryl Streep

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism. — Bernard-Henri Levy

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it. — Francis Crick

The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world. — Marvin Harris

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it. — Anthony Liccione

I'm such a fan of Lily's Tomlin, for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian. — Tina Fey

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims. — Abu Bakar Bashir

Entitlement is a foreign concept to me. — Vann Chow

Lincoln gives a lesson in adaptive leadership even to those of us who will never advocate for compensated emancipation. Facing an uproar over the cost of the government paying slaveholders for their slaves, Lincoln showed the COST OF THE STATUS QUO, which is generally overlooked by those who oppose change. — Harold Holzer

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might. — Joseph Epstein

Me, I think you only get at gist by assembling all the tiny inconclusive anecdotes that would fall flat at a dinner table and that seem irrelevant until you collect them in a pile. — Lionel Shriver