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This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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It's a scary word, 'cancer.
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The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.
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To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).
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If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.
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Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
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I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.
