What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society wer...e coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And no one, it seemed, had had the presence of mind To initiate proceedings or stop the wheel... From the number it was backing away from as it stopped: It was performing prettily; the puncture stayed unseen....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, techno...logy, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel free as a bird. I'm in a unique position because I'm the boss. I buy what I like. I initiate things. I can experiment with ...all kinds of things I think the kids might be interested in. Nobody interferes. For me, it's no chore to go to work. Most people never get to do this at any time in their lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insurrection:... insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses:... the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate part...ing, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »