Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart aga...in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In companions That do converse and waste the time together,... Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, There must be needs a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend let loose, and sneezed. The air carefully gathered itself together again, after being locally at odds with prevailing cl...imate and momentarily boycotting the trade winds. The germs were assimilated, like immigrant Jews within the overall commercial prosperity of uniform America. My friend, who had recoiled, was now well distributed in equal blocks of masses behind the reformed nose, whose recent adventure was put aside with even temper as but the sowing of wild oats. The nose, to compensate for its rash act, became a model of decorum, and was elevated as a moral precept: seen, but not heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh,... maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together, and blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father was just and good to both white and colored, and as they dwelt and worked together I never heard or saw one cruel act pe...rpetrated. The workers were fed well, clothed well, and allowed, after their regular work, to earn wages, and thus the industrious lived most comfortably. There was not a trace of aggressiveness as there is now, but the people were jolly and always full of jokes and pranks. For instance, they had devious ways of procuring extra passes, without which they could not leave their masters' farms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They [children] are autonomously capable of making meaning from their daily life experiences through mental acts involving plannin...g, coordination of ideas, and abstraction.... The central act of adults, therefore, is to activate, especially indirectly, the meaning-making competencies of children as a basis of all learning. They must try to capture the right moments, and then find the right approaches, for bringing together, into a fruitful dialogue, their meanings and interpretations with those children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effe...cts on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?' The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman's college, no matter how excellent it pretends to be, cannot evade its fundamental feminist responsibilities without doing... serious damage to its students. Today, such a school can only genuinely reactivate its feminism by declaring active commitment to the struggle of all women for their liberation. Only by repudiating parochial interests can the school become a place where women can learn together, deal with their problems together, and act collectively in their struggle to assume their rightful positions as functioning adults in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having... lived and killed alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »