WELL: I think it'd be interesting sometime to see various college-age bloggers put together a list of interesting opening lines from lectures they've heard. I had one such instance today, in my Marxism and the Soviet Experiment class with Neil Harding (who wrote, among other things, the monumental Lenin's Political Thought). In reference to the fact that we were going to spend the second half of class discussing possible paper topics, thus truncating the lecture, he said:
"I don't wish I had more time to discuss Brezhnev. I wish I had less time to discuss him."
I thought that was pretty good.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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