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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.
Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.
The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.
There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.
Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.
Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.
Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome
I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.
I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.
Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.