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All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks read more
All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in read more
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. read more
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed read more
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
