A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and openi...ng on a little lawn, surrounded in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man's heart. The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In... the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," und...erstood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.... The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as... it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One need not be a great beau, a seductive catch, to do it effectively. Any man is better than none. To shrink from giving so much ...happiness at such small expense, to evade the business on the ground that it has hazards--this is the act of a puling and tacky fellow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, c...atch some inspiration from heights above our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of peopl...e who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer--a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easier to discover another such a new world as Columbus did, than to go within one fold of this which we appear to know so w...ell; the land is lost sight of, the compass varies, and mankind mutiny; and still history accumulates like rubbish before the portals of nature. But there is only necessary a moment's sanity and sound senses, to teach us that there is a nature behind the ordinary, in which we have only some vague preemption right and western reserve as yet. We live on the outskirts of that region. Carved wood, and floating boughs, and sunset skies are all that we know of it.... Let us not, my friends, be wheedled and cheated into good behavior to earn the salt of our eternal porridge, whoever they are that attempt it. Let us wait a little, and not purchase any clearing here, trusting that richer bottoms will soon be put up. It is but thin soil where we stand; I have felt my roots in a richer ere this. I have seen a bunch of violets in a glass vase, tied loosely with a straw, which reminded me of myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »