History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
