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The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world…Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
To insult someone we call him bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake…
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be…
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.
