George Gershwin Quotes

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

George Gershwin

George Gershwin

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe
- Happy
- Faith
- Humanity
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

Aaron Swartz
- Work
- Internet
- Movement
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

E. Stanley Jones
In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

Sabine Baring-Gould
- Eyes
- Hair
- Blue
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Fidel Castro
- Death
- End
- Just Because
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Camille Paglia
- Children
- Power
- Society