"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."

“If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.”

“In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2009). “What is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays”, p.35, Stanford University Press

“We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State....”

“Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.”

“I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.”

“In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.”

“It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.”

“We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.”

Source : Justus von Liebig (1844). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner”, p.31