In his latest article (Feb. 1892) Prof. Garner says that the chatter of monkeys is not meaningless but that they are conveying ide...as to one another. This seems to me hazardous. The monkeys might with equal justice conclude that in our magazine articles or literary criticisms, we are not chattering idly but are conveying ideas to one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And you're too fired up to go to sleep, you sit at the kitchen table. It's really late, it's really quiet, you're tired. Don't wan...na go to bed, though. Going to bed means this was the day. This Feb. 12, this Aug. 3, this Nov. 20 is over and you're tired and you made some money but it didn't happen, nothing happened. You got through it and a whole day of your life is over. And all it is--is time to go to bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their ...religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really... want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything th...at exists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »