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"Americans are so individualistic, they do not realize their individualism is a communally derived value. The American I is deconstructed for me by Paolo, an architect who was raised in Bologna: "You A…"

"Questions of identity have always played a large part in my thinking and writing; and, of course, race is a key component of identity. Certainly for me, and certainly in Britain."

"I can think of nothing else than this machine."

"Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns, that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended…"

"But as soon as I opened a dance school they went who does she think she is? She has become a guru! In their mind they could not accept that anyone could build a place not because they want to be a gur…"

"I think that bloody old National nearly killed me."

"Common Logic is the Grammar of the higher Speech, that is, of Thought; it examines merely the relations of ideas to one another, the Mechanics of Thought, the pure Physiology of ideas. Now logical ide…"

"When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'…"

"I don't think that corporations are these big bogeymen that a lot of people paint them to be."

"As conceived in this book, economics is the science of rational choice in a world─our world─in which resources are limited in relation to human wants. The task of economics, so defined, is to explore …"

"“Choice,” he said heavily. A small smile disturbed his face. “We all think we have so much of that, don’t we?"

"Ingels: There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions."

"It did something to me. I thought it was the most glorious melody."

"Jack: Gee, I never thought of that."

"What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?"

"I found her charming, went home and thought no more about her. Or, I thought I would think no more about her. But in the following days and nights her image remained obsessively before my eyes. My app…"

"It is not insignificant that the Church, in the rare places and times when she had power to do so, did not compel the mind. During all that intense intellectual life of the thirteenth century instruct…"

"Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours."

"In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid."

"I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility."