Write to the point: say immediately what you want to say most, even if it doesn't "come first." There are three reasons for doing ...this. First, you will then have said it, even if nothing else gets said. Second, your readers will then have read it, even if they read no more. Third, having said it, you are likely to have to say something more, because you will have to explain and justify what you chose to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke? I'm trying to come to the point.... I refuse to give up my obsession. America stop pushing I know what I'm doing. America the plum blossoms are falling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosop...hy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern theories of mental dysfunction led to the elimination of witches from our serious ontology. The concepts of folk psychology...--belief, desire, fear, sensation, pain, joy, and so on--await a similar fate, according to the view at issue. And when neuroscience has matured to the point where the poverty of our current conceptions is apparent to everyone, and the superiority of the new framework is established, we shall then be able to set about reconceiving our internal states and activities, within a truly adequate conceptual framework at last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the successi...on of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and tha...t, in one word, is SACRIFICE!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Christian, it is about time for many people to begin to come to the White House to discuss different phases of the coal strike.... When anybody comes, if his special problem concerns the state, refer him to the governor of Pennsylvania. If his problem has a national phase, refer him to the United States Coal Commission. In no event bring him to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like the ...middle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, ...at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »