In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of th...e cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him... who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees with all their boughs to a festal or solemn arcade, ...as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them. No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods without being struck by the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter when the bareness of the trees shows the low arch of the Saxons. In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... ...Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time... Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The WORD was that Hard Rock wasn't a mean nigger Anymore, that the doctors had bored a hole in his head,... Cut out part of his brain, and shot electricity Through the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the lesson to be learned from China's Confucianism could never be more significant for us than it is now. Its ethical aspects ...are a reminder which our Christian civilization needs if we are not to stand before the world as hypocrites who preach love while practicing the bitterest hatreds toward more rival orthodoxies and toward peoples whose skins are of a different hue. We shall, in fact, dig the gave of Western civilization unless we implement the faith that Confucianism and democracy have in common, namely, that ethics has its roots in man's relation to the universe, that morality comes into being through honest, clear-cut human relationships and cannot endure unless it is reflected in the patterns of daily life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country wheth...er he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls' curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »