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The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day. ”
Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century. ”
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. ”
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation. ”
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. ”
You don't hear anybody talking about what FBI is doing with the NSA collected data. That's because they're doing it in secret. I mean, they're also using it to convict people of crimes, and that's what they're doing - they're looking at it for criminal activity. ”
Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too. ”
Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface. ”
I think of the various forms of anti-Semitism as very much like different kinds of cancer. A healthy body with a strong immune system can have success in preventing cancers from emerging and spreading. But if the immune system weakens cancer can emerge. Some might be localized. But others can rapidly metastasize and become systematic. ”
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ”