... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assi...milate but one idea at a time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to sup...press contention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question is still asked of women: "How do you propose to answer the need for child care?" That is an obvious attempt to struct...ure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: "If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and sudden...ly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that a...ny attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it,..." they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the ro...pe having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Ede...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »