Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.
I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.
Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.
The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.
COLD. Healthier than heat.
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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