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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.
Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.
The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.
Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.
[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.
A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.
If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.
Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.
[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.
[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.