For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny ...they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an o...rdering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the culture defines it. As long as these defin...itions remain intact--that is, as long as men are defined as sexual aggressors and women are defined as passive receptors lacking integrity--men who are exemplars of the norm will rape women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test re...ality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She might have been old once and now, miraculously, young again--but with the memory of that other life intact. She seemed to know... the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This youngest of the arts is also the most heavily burdened with memory. Cinema is a time machine. Movies preserve the past, while... theatres--no matter how devoted to the classics, to old plays--can only "modernize." Movies resurrect the beautiful dead; present, intact, vanished or ruined environments; embody without irony styles and fashions that seem funny today.... Films age (being objects) as no theatre event does (being always new).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television and Disneyland operate similarly, by means of extraction, reduction, and recombination, to create an entirely new, anti...geographical space. On TV, the endlessly bizarre juxtapositions of the daily broadcast schedule continuously erode traditional strategies of coherence. The quintessential experience of television, that continuous program-hopping zap from the remote control, creates path after unique path through the infinity of televised space. Likewise, Disneyland, with its channel-turning mingle of history and fantasy, reality and simulation, invents a way of encountering the physical world that increasingly characterizes daily life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There lies intact that chalice of ours, And its presence adds to the rhyme of love... Persistently sung by the fall above. No lip has touched it since his and mine In turns therefrom sipped lover's wine."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »