The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.