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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are read more
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
