The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I don&#39;t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

I don&#39;t care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?

Susan Orlean

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Written By Susan Orlean

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