Wheeler: Aren't you the fellow the Mexicans used to call "Brachine"? Dude: That's nearly right. Only it's "Borracho."... Wheeler: I don't think I ever seen you like this before. Dude: You mean sober. You're probably right. You know what "Borracho" means? Wheeler: My Spanish ain't too good. Dude: It means drunk. No, if the name bothers ya' they used to call me Dude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Avrum was there in the audience, I believe, in Berkeley on the afternoon in 1941 when, in conformity with the law subsequently enu...nciated by Murphy, what could go wrong, epistemologically, did. G.E. Moore was delivering the Howison Lecture in Wheeler Auditorium, which had a handsome coffered ceiling inset with glass panels. Giving a local angle to his defence of common sense, Moore declared that among the things he knew there and then was that light from the sun was streaming through the roof. Most in the audience were aware, however, that the glass panels were diffusers for electrical illumination; the roof of the building was solid and opaque. Someone had the temerity to point this out to Moore in the question period. He responded, "Oh dear me!" and went on to the next question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come all you rounders if you want to hear A story 'bout a brave engineer;... Casey Jones, that was the rounder's name On a heavy eight-wheeler he rode to fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bernstein: "Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don't feel right spending your money stop.... There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler." Any answer? Charles Foster Kane: Yes--Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our ...own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now h...igh time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »