In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide u...s? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Butte citizen's blood pressure rises and falls with the price of copper. He opposes war "and yet, when you come to think of it..., war would probably raise the price of copper and increase work and wages ..." Sometimes he is half-convinced that Butte is the real capital of the United States and copper instead of gold the proper standard of values. If he is a miner, or has friends or near relatives in the mines, he is often grim and worried. Butte's streets are crowded nightly with persons intent upon a round of pleasure in bars and gambling places, some seeking to forget the fears of daily existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother. When d'you get back? I ain't seen you since the surrender. Come to think of... it, I didn't see you at the surrender. Ethan Edwards: Don't believe in surrender. I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare, neither.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of ro...om at the top.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it mys...elf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I" is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it... waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »