Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. Is some dish brought to you? Then put forth your hand and hel...p yourself in seemly fashion. Does it pass you by? Then do not hold it back. Has it not yet come to you? Then do not stretch out for it at a distance, but wait till it is at your hand. And thus doing with regard to children, and wife, and authority, and wealth, you will be a worthy guest at the table of the gods. And if you even pass over things that are offered to you, and refuse to take of them, then you will not only share the banquet of the gods, but also their dominion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword; shew that reformation is more practicable by operat...ing on the mind than on the body of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the mom...ent it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and ... am satisfied that it d...oes not agree with my constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who... are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even if it's just a cold one. Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can't lick the Vandamms ...of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them, and fly away with them, and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars. Professor: I'm afraid we're already doing that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus I believe that without doing violence to the ancient doctrine of the Chinese, one can say that the Li has been brought by the... perfection of its nature to choose, from several possibilities, the most appropriate; and that by this means it has produced the Ki (Ch'i) or matter with dispositions such that all the rest has come about by natural propensities, in the same way that Monsieur Descartes claims to bring forth the present order of the world as a consequence of a small number of initially generated assumptions. Thus the Chinese, far from being blameworthy, merit praise for their ideas of things being created by their natural propensity and by a pre-established harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »