Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coa...ches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm going to take you down and show you our cemetery. I've got a waiting list of fifty people at that cemetery just dying to get i...n. But I like you and I'm going to shove you in ahead of all of them. I'm going to see that you get a steady position and if I can arrange it, it will be horizontal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I ...can't stand it. I been there before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looks like we got a trial ahead of us. But it's not the first time. We've had to go it alone before, and we'll have to go it alone... again. We're tough. We've had to be tough ever since Brother Brigham led our people across the plain. Well, they survived and I dang it, we'll, well, we'll survive too. Now put out your fires and get to your wagons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...we went on to Douglas, Arizona, and ... got in ahead of time. I asked the pilot the reason, and he told me we had a tail wind, ...which meant fast going. Right then it struck me that a tail wind was a mighty handy thing to have, in a lot of ways besides flying. I could look back over my life and think of quite a few times when a tail wind would have been right useful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make m...otherhood the highest office on the social scale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine rig...ht of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... "a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plaus...ible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »