“ Why study what the world thinks? I believe this practice will actually make us more gracious and merciful. Engaged in interactions with worldlings, we are likely to see each person and each situation… Brian Eshleman
“ One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncras… Harold Bloom
“ It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options. David Brooks
“ When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical. Anthony Paletta
“ Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge. Rebecca Goldstein
“ That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them. Steven Johnson
“ What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever. Vietnamese saying
“ A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song. Matt Chandler
“ The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that there would seem to… Ross Cheit
“ One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated. Harold Holzer
“ A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt… Sherry Turkle
“ When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of m… Hilary Austen
“ In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved. Pat Conroy
“ The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right. Jim Bouton
“ The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. Alexis de Tocqueville
