The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering--that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artis...tic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are all aware that speech, like chemistry, has a structure. There is a limited set of elements--vowels and consonants--and thes...e are combined to produce words which, in turn, compound into sentences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What an antithetical mind!--tenderness, roughness--delicacy, coarseness--sentiment, sensuality--soaring and grovelling, dirt and d...eity--all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mi...ssion unrecognized by political economists. There is ever a moral balance preserved in the universe, like the vibrations of the pendulum. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conci...ousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interes...t on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadership... in industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give a scientist a problem and he will probably provide a solution; historians and sociologists, by contrast, can offer only opini...ons. Ask a dozen chemists the composition of an organic compound such as methane, and within a short time all twelve will have come up with the same solution of CH4. Ask, however, a dozen economists or sociologists to provide policies to reduce unemployment or the level of crime and twelve widely differing opinions are likely to be offered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »