It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.