Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone; You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,... and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the... statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is one principal and as it were radical distinction between different minds, in respect of philosophy and the sciences; whic...h is this: that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the differences of things, others to mark their resemblances. The steady and acute mind can fix its contemplations and dwell and fasten on the subtlest distinctions: the lofty and discursive mind recognises and puts together the finest and most general resemblances. Both kinds however easily err in excess, by catching the one at gradations, the other at shadows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No Raven's wing can stretch the flight so far As the torn bandrols of Napoleon's war.... Choose then your climate, fix your best abode, He'll make you deserts and he'll bring you blood. How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind, Tho slain by millions, millions left behind? Has not conscription still the power to weild Her annual faulchion o'er the human field? A faithful harvester!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human visual perception is a far more complex and selective process than that by which a film records. Nevertheless the camera len...s and the eye both register images--because of their sensitivity to light--at great speed and in the face of an immediate event. What the camera does, however, and what the eye in itself can never do is to fix the appearance of that event. It removes its appearance from the flow of appearances and it preserves it, not perhaps forever but for as long as the film exists. The essential character of this preservation is not dependent upon the image being static; unedited film rushes preserve in essentially the same way. The camera saves a set of appearances from the otherwise inevitable supercession of further appearances. It holds them unchanging. And before the invention of the camera nothing could do this, except, in the mind's eye, the faculty of memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they t...ry to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although good early childhood programs can benefit all children, they are not a quick fix for all of society's ills--from crime in... the streets to adolescent pregnancy, from school failure to unemployment. We must emphasize that good quality early childhood programs can help change the social and educational outcomes for many children, but they are not a panacea; they cannot ameliorate the effects of all harmful social and psychological environments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firmness yclept in heroes, kings and seamen, That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed... As obstinacy, both in men and women, Whene'er their triumph pales, or star is tamed -- And 'twill perplex the casuist in morality To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen many people, who, while you are speaking to them, instead of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the... ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps... to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »