"I was walking home the other night, and I was thinking about it, and do you worry that when you're old you will be on your own?"

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"Finally this evening, a brief note about change: Some of you have noticed in the last several days that I was not covering the Pope. While my colleagues at ABC did a superb job, I did think a few time…"

— Peter Jennings

Journalism1938–2005

#time

"We hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, hol…"

— Thucydides

Literature-500–-420

#mind

"Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit. If I thought you were sent by the Creator, I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me. Do not misundersta…"

— Chief Joseph

1840–1904

#mind

"In recent years, much has been said about the post-modernist claims about science to the effect that science is just another form of raw power, tricked out in special claims for truth-seeking and obje…"

— Michael Crichton

Literature1942–2008

#truth