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Andrew Ferguson

Americans used to say they wanted their kids to be just like Lincoln: kind, principled, resolute. But what we’ve really wanted is for Lincoln to be like us.

Wendell Berry

School systems innovate as compulsively and as eagerly as factories.

Michael Crichton

… fears are a matter of fashion. Worries are like clothing styles, they come and go, rise and fall, based on what the worry fashion leaders tell the herd of independent minds to fear this year.

George Will

The journalistic rule is that conservatives pander, liberals “grow.”

Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Daniel Boorstin

Two centuries ago when a great man appeared, people looked for God’s purpose in him; today we look for his press agent.

Pascal

Man’s difficulties are caused by his inability to sit, quietly, in a room by himself.

Chuck Noll

Pressure is something you feel only when you don’t know what you’re doing.

Carl Sagan

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

C.S. Lewis

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self.

C.S. Lewis

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up.

Eugene Ionesco

If I have shown men to be ridiculous or ludicrous, it was in no way out of any desire for comic effect…

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