To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
All are not cooks who walk with long knives.
Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.
It is easier to say that AS best describes my differences. It makes people more comfortable to have a scientific-sounding term. But actually, I feel dishonest when I say I have AS because the negative effects of my differences on my life are so sligh...
Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de ...
A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the speaking mind selected one, forming it grossly in...
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"-...
I explained my opinion of the ship’s logic. “That is a strange designation,” said the ship. “While I have certain organic elements incorporated into my substructure and decentralized DNA computing components, I am not—in the strictest sense...
[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson] An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its luci...
Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
Do not desire a long life or an early death
May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.
