The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.
People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.
There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.
There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.
I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
