Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Lou Reed

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stran

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Demetri Martin

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man.... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus

You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Mark Steyn

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Jose Padilha

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

Michel de Montaigne

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

Brian Corby

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo