A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you'v...e been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it al...l out, and hold him to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,... That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself character that our future needs. We must become more self-consci...ous and more explicit in our praise and reinforcement as children use unstructured play materials: "That's good. You use your own ideas...." "That's good. You did it your way...." "That's good. You thought it all out yourself."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out... of duty has he become a great man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view "realistically"; that is, with an eye to expense and ...practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent--war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary be...aver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »