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.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Voltaire

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Giacomo Casanova

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Carol P. Christ

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Andy Rooney

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Paulo Coelho

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Sydney J. Harris

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

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So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Amy Waldman

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Envy is concealed admiration

Luckson Pierre