#in

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#associate #belief #conscious #continuance #existence

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#asked #because #certainly #disliked #folks

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#funny #i #lie #night #nixon

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#children #education #fathers #interactions #point

A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#emulate #goldfish #looks #public #public support

I was playing catch with the European audience. ↗

— Charles Olson

#catch #european #i #playing

Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#basically #been #bonds #debt #domestic