As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.
Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.
The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.
YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!
I love challenging the status quo.
Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed…. there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.