I Believe We Are Being Dishonest With

If Everybody Is Rewarded Just For Being Alive, You Get The Same Sort Of Effect As You Do When You Reward Every Student Just For Being Enrolled. You Destroy Not Only Education, You Destroy Society By Giving A's To Everyone. This Is A Philosophical Consideration That Bothers Me Very Much As I Sit In The United States Senate And See The Great Budget Allocations Going Through.

Ever Since Man Began To Till The Soil And Learned Not To Eat The Seed Grain But To Plant It And Wait For Harvest, The Postponement Of Gratification Has Been The Basis Of A Higher Standard Of Living And Of Civilization.

Language Is A Unifying Instrument Which Binds People Together. When People Speak One Language They Become As One, They Become A Society.

In The Case Of Drama (stage, Movies, Television ), There Appear To Be People In Almost Every Audience Who Never Quite Fully Realize That A Play Is A Set Of Fictional, Symbolic Representations. An Actor Is One Who Symbolizes Other People, Real Or Imagined. [...] Also Some Years Ago It Was Reported That When Edward G. Robinson, Who Used To Play Gangster Roles With Extraordinary Vividness, Visited Chicago, Local Hoodlums Would Telephone Him At His Hotel To Pay Their Professional Respects.

It Is The Individual Who Knows How Little They Know About Themselves Who Stands The Most Reasonable Chance Of Finding Out Something About Themselves Before They Die.