The best way to prevent something from happenin… is to convince people that it already did

In theory rule by consensus sounds more democratic but in practice it leads to hung juries

The Declaration of Independence w… revised to guarantee life, security and the pursuit of criminals

I can demand control Of my fear Or I can accept That I am not in control And be not afraid

My constant sense of dread Was just a case Of perpetual stage fright In a never-ending performance of c… Now that I’ve dropped the act

The remarkable thing about life is how time consuming it is

I have a prediction to make: We can’t predict the ending But when it’s all said and done Everything will seem obvious For example,

A student’s job has always been to put received knowledge into their own words or, more simply to state the obvious

We are on the cusp of a great cala… The war of all against all Will commence as soon as No one lifts a finger Do not be fooled–

In the same Talking Heads song the “road to nowhere” is both a “road to paradise” and the way “they can tell you what to… and “make a fool of you”

As you age getting enough exercise in futility becomes more and more a portent

The high strung flaneur gives free advice to the good and good advice to the free

John F. Kennedy’s hair was so lus… for the most part men never wore hats again At first we must have looked oddly like tub…

Human beings have always used the symbolic to navigate the real; until recently we did so by imagining that the symbolic is rea… whereas scientists imagine that