I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
Anthropology seems so bland and friendly now, but in the early 20th century, Jews could only be dissected badly by these fields. The Jews were extremely assimilated; it's a different world than now.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
