So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.
So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.
If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.
I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.
Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.
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