“Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good—and those reasons will always hang on their lust for material goods. A man who has little thinks little of sharing it; but the man who has much will clutch it with his dying fingers.”
“Brilliance cannot improvise on faulty data.”
Michael F. Flynn
“Cigars were for talk; pipes for reflection.”
Michael F. Flynn
“But scouts, he told himself firmly, must observe what is, not what they wish to see.”
Michael F. Flynn
“What the prisoner said made some sense. He could see how technological progress—and social change with it—was coupled with free trade and the free exchange of ideas. Yet, he wasn’t at all sure that it...”
Michael F. Flynn
“This was an omen for sure, but one with no obvious meaning.”
Michael F. Flynn
