A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
In our society to admit inferiority is to be a fool, and to admit superiority is to be an outcast. Those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
It's never what you say, but how
You make it sound sincere.
You make it sound sincere.
Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
There's always a job for an engineer
(But nobody wants a poet).
(But nobody wants a poet).
Those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
Until a child can meet reality, he must live in fantasy. But he must create his own fantasy. And it is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
Wit has a deadly aim and it is possible to prick a large pretense with a small pin.
You cannot know what you cannot feel.
You cannot know what you do not feel.
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.
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