The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can?t teach someone who writes columns to care.