Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be ...organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees with all their boughs to a festal or solemn arcade, ...as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them. No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods without being struck by the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter when the bareness of the trees shows the low arch of the Saxons. In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes ha...s its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the fac...e of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world of ...work, rather than the labor markets and industries responding to the parenting and family needs of their employees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programmes, or cartoons. What is es...sential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me tha...t sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in th...e facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an... inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »