During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known--it was used pri...marily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is "the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy's pony."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, o...r my mother or my sister--anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion--keep you from eating, which I liked to d...o.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and wo...men from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity--an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It does seem strange that the only place in the government which I would have liked to fill myself I am forced to give to another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wilson was a visionary who liked to identify himself with "forward-looking man"; Harding ... was as old-fashioned as those wooden ...Indians which used to stand in front of cigar stores.... Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, bu...t too often by rote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stupid misery of fame and money. Always we were safe from it, mistaking our obscurity for a curse when it was a treasure. Free to ...make what we liked, to be ourselves, even do nothing at all. No one watching. We could be real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The terms "splitters" and "lumpers" come from taxonomy, where the classifiers were separated into those who liked to create new ta...xa because of small differences and those who preferred to coalesce categories because of similarities. The concept has found wider applicability as knowledge in all fields expands. Specialists are confined to ever-narrowing domains while generalists survey the immensity of information in an effort, one hopes, to find higher orders of structure. It is clear that in the university and intellectual community ... the splitters are in command and the lumpers are in serious disarray, unable to keep up with the output of printouts that are generated in such a variety of ways. It is saddening to witness the loss of status of those engaged in integrative thought, for one sees in it the fragmentation of scientific and humanistic disciplines.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »