81、The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people.
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82、International relations can never be completely harmonious because many cultures do not share the same values.
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83、People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good.
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84、Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways.
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85、Laws should not be stationary and fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places.
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86、It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may be worked out by a team, but true innovation results from the enterprise and unique perception of an individual.
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87、The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each.
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88、The study of an academic discipline alters the way we perceive the world. After studying the discipline, we see the same world as before, but with different eyes.
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89、Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system because moral behavior cannot be legislated.
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90、The way students and scholars interpret the materials they work with in their academic fields is more a matter of personality than of training. Different interpretations come about when people with different personalities look at exactly the same objects, facts, data, or events and see different things.
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91、We live under the illusion that we know what we want, when actually we merely want what we are supposed to want.
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92、As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious.
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93、It is a grave mistake to theorize before one has data.
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94、Scandals---whether in politics, academia, or other areas---can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
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95、Practicality is now our great idol, which all powers and talents must serve. Anything that is not obviously practical has little value in todays world.
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96、It is easy to welcome innovation and accept new ideas. What most people find difficult, however, is accepting the way these new ideas are put into practice.
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97、Success, whether academic or professional, involves an ability to survive in a new environment and--, eventually, --to change it.
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98、The function of art is not to keep pace with science and technology but rather to provide an escape from these forces.
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99、As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate---and, perhaps, even cruel---when one considers all the potential uses of such money.
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100、The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus.