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“In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, ta...”
“Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.”
“Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.”
“Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.”
“The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical work were mysteries to them as were the job discipline and the subtletie...”
“The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.”
“If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what...”
“Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.”
“Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later.”
“What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinkers cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to th...”
“She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.”
