History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.

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What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.