Mary Ritter Beard

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.