We are caught up Mr. Perry on a great wave whether we will or no, a great wave of expansion and progress. All these mechanical inv...entions--telephones, electricity, steel bridges, horseless vehicles--they are all leading somewhere. It's up to us to be on the inside in the forefront of progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Armies, for the most part, are made up of men drawn from simple and peaceful lives. In time of war they suddenly find themselves l...iving under conditions of violence, requiring new rules of conduct that are in direct contrast to the conditions they lived under as civilians. They learn to accept this to perform their duties as fighting men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Things happen to us, all the time. It was like that for a century, and it is again. It's not like here: People always do things, b...ecause you are born with it; you are brought up in this spirit, the active approach to life: "Stand up and go." We were not. We were always passive in our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is because the public are a mass--inert, obtuse, and passive--that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can t...ell from their bear-like grunts where they are--and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O you are not lying in the wet clay, For it is a harvest evening now and we... Are piling up the ricks against the moonlight And you smile up at us--eternally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The family environment in which your children are growing up is different from that in which you grew up. The decisions our parent...s made and the strategies they used were developed in a different context from what we face today, even if the "content" of the problem is the same. It is a mistake to think that our own experience as children and adolescents will give us all we need to help our children. The rules of the game have changed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For in the word death There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;... Nothing to adapt the skill of the heart to, skill In surviving, for death it cannot survive, Only resign the irrecoverable keys. The wave falters and drowns. The coulter of joy Breaks. The harrow of death Depends. And there are thrown up waves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human b...eing, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true ...masculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »