The way you begin each day defines how you'll live each day.
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.
Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.
Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
[Nabokov's] language is made visible. . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.
The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)
I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see it for the first time, and then I spend time with it, discover details and things I haven't seen, and then I have the moment when I decide to leave it.
I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.