“It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.” ThinkingMindHumansEvilEasyRaceMoralIssuesEssentialsDisappearCeaseOppositionDissentInvigoratingMoral IssuesHoning Author:Jill Tweedie
“My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.” MenHumansChildrenAgeTimeChangeRaceLowsBoredHuman RaceBoredomMore TimeSectionsThreshold Book:It's only me: pieces from a column Source: It's only me: pieces from a column