Barely tolerated, living on the margin In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued... On the brink of destruction....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Predictions usually deal with events--who will win an election, whether or not a country will go to war, the specification of a ne...w invention; they center on decisions. Yet such predictions, while possible, cannot be formalized, i.e. made subject to rules. The prediction of events is inherently difficult. Events are the intersect of social vectors (interests, forces, pressures, and the like). While one can to some extent assess the strength of these vectors individually, one would need a "social physics" to predict the exact crosspoints where decisions and forces combine.... Forecasting is possible where there are regularities and recurrences of phenomena (these are rare), of where there are persisting trends whose direction, if not exact trajectory, can be plotted with statistical time-series or be formulated as historical tendencies. Necessarily, therefore, one deals with probabili ties and an array of possible projections. But the limitations of forecasting are also evident. The further one reaches ahead in time with a set of forecasts, the greater the margin for error, since the fan of the projections widens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,... or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, ...that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? ...I know no speck so troublesome as self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I skirted the margin alders for miles and miles In a sweeping line.... The day was the day by every flower that blooms, But I saw no sign.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who decides what is margin and what is text? Who decides where the borders of the homeland run? Absences and silences are potent. ...It is the eloquent margins which frame the official history of the land. As for geography, there are divisions and boundary lines that fissure any state more deeply than the moat it digs around the nationhood. In every country there are gaping holes. People fall through them and disappear. Yet on every side there are also doors to a wider place, a covert geography under sleep where all the waters meet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Reco...gnition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of th...e human enterprise and women are at the margin "helping" them. Such a world does not exist--never has.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then he rang the bell and ordered a ham sandwich. When the maid placed the plate on the table, he deliberately looked away but as ...soon as the door had shut, he grabbed the sandwich with both hands, immediately soiled his fingers and chin with the hanging margin of fat and, grunting greedily, began to much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »