The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
From Max Lerner
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
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