Edward Hacking

“All I wanted was a job like a book so good I'd be finishing it for the rest of my life.”
― Stephen Dunn

“Strange, though; because he is afraid of everything, nothing is harder than anything else. Taking a trip around the world is no more terrifying than buying a stick of gum. The daily dose of courage.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Education has spread, but intelligence is perpetually retarded by the fertility of the simple. A cynic remarked that “you mustn’t enthrone ignorance just because there is so much of it.” However, ignorance is not long enthroned, for it lends itself to manipulation by the forces that mold public opinion. It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that “you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It