Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to...
I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
drenching his shirt with saltwater
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...