The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and sub-disciplinary specialty, so I am a psychologist and I am a social psychologist within that. But I think the exciting thing is to think about the social sciences in general and the nature of society. It's one of the hardest things to think about, because our brains aren't designed to think about these emergent entities. We're not good at it.
Time control directly influences the quality of play.