"A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job."

-- Thomas Boswell

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“American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.”

Source : Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.53, PublicAffairs
“She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.”
“Branching is easy. Merging is hard.”
“For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.”
“The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.”

Source : Arthur Robert Jensen (1980). “Bias in Mental Testing”
“To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.”
“Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.”
“Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.”

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