Vanderley Carburetors Quotes & Sayings

If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky ... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development. — Neil Postman

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'. — Dorothy Parker

Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself. — L.S. Hilton

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. — Albert Schweitzer

The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God's law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world ... .The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. — Majid Khadduri

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time. — J. Allen Hynek

Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space. — Paul Beaver

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. — Bliss Carman

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant

Let me howl and die. — Ursula Andkjaer Olsen

Think of this: Hundreds of people today are doing things that not a single one of the them would have dared to do at the beginning of the Seventies. We are now living in a truly new and different situation. This is not because the government has become more tolerant; it simply had to get used to the new situation. It has had to yield to continuing pressure from below, which means pressure from all those apparently suicidal or exhibitionistic civic acts. — Vaclav Havel