Winning Has A Joy And Discrete Purity

As I Grew Up, I Knew That As A Building It Was On The Level Of Mount Olympus, The Pyramid Of Giza, The Nation's Capital, The Czar's Winter Palace, And The Louvre - Except, Of Course, That It Was Better Than All Of Those Inconsequential Places.

I'm The World's Expert On Sterotypes Held By Academics About Athletes And Held By Athletes About Academics. To Me, Both Of Them Are Caricatures.

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.

My Goal Has Been To Encourage Jointness, To Push People To Think Of Affiliations Rather Than To Operate As Solo Entrepreneurs.

A Convention Is A Social Pattern We Have Chosen To Prefer Over Whatever The Raw World Simply Proffers. It Is A Sign Of The Operation Of The Mind, Drawing The Assent Of A Sufficient Number Of Other Minds So That The Agreement Will Be Widely Operative. A Convention Is Not A Custom; A Custom Is A Habit In Which A Sufficient Number Acquiesce. A Custom Can Appear As A Convention, But It Is Really A Lesser Act, The Result Of Passive Acceptance Rather Than Of The Imposition Of Design. It Is The Difference Between Learning To Live By The Annual Flooding Of The River Or By A Calendar.