The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and who...ever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignobl...e to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever may be our just grievances in the southern states, it is fitting that we acknowledge that, considering their poverty and ...past relationship to the Negro race, they have done remarkably well for the cause of education among us. That the whole South should commit itself to the principle that the colored people have a right to be educated is an immense acquisition to the cause of popular education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling--and indeed healthy--to ask why you have b...een given so much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wil...ds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother's side!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one ...else need know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freest... country on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »