Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.