Won't #HunterBidensDad make a far, far better ventriloquist's dummy than #nucularDubya? ;-)

I cannot be violent against you with words because you get to choose the effect they have on you @RKoerner

Typically they come in interested & the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds #NoamChomsky

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space #OrhanPamuk

You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world #JohnRogers

#Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves #RichardFeynman

Let every man make known what kind of government would command respect; that will be 1 step toward obtaining it #HenryDavidThoreau

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite #KarlPopper

'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another #GeorgeWashington

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. Scar is what happens when word is made flesh #LeonardCohen

I do not need a mask if everyone else is wearing one @NNTaleb

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is time to understand more, so that we may fear less #MarieCurie

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite #TennesseeWilliams

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other @DalaiLama

I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him #GalileoGalilei

That's the kind of God you people talk about, country bumpkin, clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed #JosephHeller

Bottom line is that the black family was stronger the first 100 years after slavery than during what will be the 2nd 100 years @WE_Williams

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear #NelsonMandela

Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time #JonathanLethem

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good #ThomasPaine