The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.