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-For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

-History never looks like history when you are living through it.

-It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

-Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

-Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

-The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

-When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.