Not being a K.N. [Know-Nothing] I am left as a sort of waif on the political sea with symptoms of a mild sort towards Black Republ...icanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"O.K., Marlowe," I said to myself, "you're a tough guy. You've been zapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm... until you're as crazy as a couple of waltzing mice, now let's see you do something really tough, like putting your pants on."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit ...against the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in wa...ys that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I... the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore;... But wondered much, and sorrowed more, Because it hung behind him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a ...disease but an error of judgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which... it lives on as a limiting case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »