Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that direction. And we have to do it fast.
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
