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"I am saying that many of the problems between the sexes are coming from something prior to socialization, a turbulence that has to do with every boy’s origin in a woman’s body, and the way he is overw…"

"I long for rural and domestic scenes, for the warbling of Birds and the Prattle of my Children. Don't you think I am somewhat poetical this morning, for one of my Years, and considering the Gravity, a…"

"What a struggle I had to make on that . You would say, a nice assignment to make something good out of it, isn't it. I myself thought it that way. So I went to Heeze, I made a mass of studies of women…"

"One day I was sitting one side of the fireplace, and my wife was sitting on the other, and I suddenly said to her, “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to write a story about some boys on an island, showing ho…"

"And my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose, which they had always thought from certain marks on my head and brea…"

"The hallmark, then, of the advanced religious, nonsectarian or any other — the hallmark most commonly identifying this person is that he very frequently behaves like a fool, even an imbecile."

"Go home, Johann — Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen."

"How about the judgment, on 9/11, to keep reading to schoolchildren, when you are told, "The country is under attack"? I mean, talk about being non-partisan; how much of a partisan pretzel do you have …"

"If you are a Christian, no earthly city is yours. Of our City ‘the Builder and Maker is God.’ Though we may gain possession of the whole world, we are withal but strangers and sojourners in it all. We…"

"On helping his mother beat drug addiction:"

"Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pag…"

"Working from home requires self-starting. And children raised with poor boundary enforcement rarely master the postponed gratification that self-starting requires."

"No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?"

"As regards George Bush, I've met him thirteen times. We know each other from way back. He was in charge of the CIA and knew Zaire's problems backwards. He received me at his home in Maine with his mot…"

"I don’t care if she knew about this. She ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab."

"King of the Royal Mounted BLBs and Comics"

"The second requirement of a virus-friendly environment – that it should obey a program of coded instructions – is again only quantitatively less true for brains than for cells or computers. We sometim…"

"Anjan Dutta is one of the most interesting persons I have ever met."

"Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better…"

"There isn't a generation gap between you and me – there's two."