Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think. . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
What yells out at the US public. . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception.
That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.
Money can't buy off the lightning.
One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.