“ Pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize. Arthur C. Brooks
“ It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose. William Henry III
“ I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill
“ They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche
“ English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had s… Marcel Proust
“ Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease. Barbara W. Tuchman
