Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson
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Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
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I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.
When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.
One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.
I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.
