In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal th...at allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good ole boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid te...am and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put ...to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the... less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset t...o fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is... to be sensitive to woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What if there are not only two nostrils, two eyes, two lobes, and so forth, but two psyches as well, and they are separately equip...ped? They go through life like Siamese twins inside one person.... They can be just a little different, like identical twins, or they can be vastly different, like good and evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »