quotes about Caliber

“When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.”

Source : "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

“I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.276, The Floating Press

“Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.”

“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.”

“The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.”

“Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.”

“Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.”

“Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.5

“Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.”

“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”