The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.
We seek no wider war.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
Third Covenant “monosacredness” is not a break with the earlier covenants; it transcends and includes them all.
Albert Freedman: If you were a kid, would you wanna be an annoying Jewish guy with a side wall haircut? Charles Van Doren: Well I wanted to be Joe Dimaggio. Albert Freedman: Oh yeah, me too. Especially after he signed for that hundred grand.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mas...
Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, an...
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that...
Albert Mondego: Who are you, and why are you doing this? Luigi: We are bad men, and for the money!
Celie: [to Albert] Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna' fail.
Albert Torena: Where's your empathy, brother? It's a substance abuse problem. Vincent Hanna: Empathy was yesterday. Today, you're wasting my motherfucking time.
Albert 'Gloansy' Magloan: [before the men put on their nun facial masks on their way to the armored car robbery] Say your prayers. Here we go...
