The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.