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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? ”
A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. ”
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. ”
To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving. ”
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. ”
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. ”
I'm not usually the guy who believes in aliens, UFOs or superstitions. ”
There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you. ”
Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period. ”