“bad examples recoil on those who set them”

Seneca

“The message I would give to young people is: Don’t be the best in your class. If you’re the best in your class you’re in the wrong class.”

James Watson (co-discoverer of DNA’s structure)

“Is it possible to be an educated person without having considered questions of why we are here and what is expected of us? And is it possible to consider these questions by ignoring the answers provided by religion? I think not, since religion may be defined as our attempt to give a total, integrated response to questions about the meaning of existence.”

Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18^th Century

“One doesn’t have a sense of humor, it has you.”

Larry Gelbart

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”

John Locke

“a nation... is an imagined community... more specifically a remembered community, a community with an imagined history, and it is defined by its historical memory of itself. No nation exists in the absence of a national history, enshrining in the minds of its common people common memories of their travails and triumphs, heroes and villains, enemies and wars, defeats and victories.”

Samuel Huntington Who Are We? The Challenges to American’s National Identity

“The story of mankind shows ... civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.”

Winston Churchill in a BBC speech Nov. 16, 1934

“A man’s minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible and creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change.”

G.K. Chesterton “On Lying in Bed”