#elle

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#assume #attacked #because #community #counterterrorism

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#excellent #good #lost #precisely #translation

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger

#collective #consciousness #expelled #finds #habits

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. ↗

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#achievement #american #american life #crucible #democratic

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#intellect #into #itself #obstinacy #place

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#did #effects #excellent #majority #moving

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. ↗

— David Seabury

#complex #comradeship #intellectual #make #obscure

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. ↗

— John Searle

#berkeley #body #element #feature #general

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#best #enjoy #go #i #kids

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#excellence #length #life #like #matters