Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees ...in honey production--only to produce a race of bed-wetters!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were many vessels, like gulls, skimming over the surface of the sea, now half concealed in its troughs, their dolphin- strik...ers plowing the water, now tossed on the top of the billows.... Some of these vessels lagged behind, while others steadily went ahead. We narrowly watched their rig and the cut of their jibs, and how they walked the water, for there was all the difference between them that there is between living creatures. But we wondered that they should be remembering Boston and New York and Liverpool, steering for them, out there; as if the sailor might forget his peddling business on such a grand highway. They had perchance brought oranges from the Western Isles; and were they carrying back the peel? We might as well transport our old traps across the ocean of eternity. Is that but another "trading flood," with its blessed isles? Is Heaven such a harbor as the Liverpool docks?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fig...ht for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even against all hazards I had ... hit the bull's-eye. My head swelled two sizes larger, and my mouth developed a brand-new snarl.... Take a look at me now, you guys that think I don't know what I'm doing, and see if I care! and work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »