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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.
The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.
The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.
[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.