The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought...

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought...

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always...

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always...

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a...

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a...

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but...

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but...

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more...

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more...

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, / where I sow my words...

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, / where I sow my words...

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in...

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in...