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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
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Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
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That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
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It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
