Women are only children of a larger growth.... A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, ...as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be ...organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in wa...ys that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or ...constitute a proof for its existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence.... The boil is grow...ing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a ...vital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you ...will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ...ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No real "vital" character in fiction is altogether a conscious construction of the author. On the contrary, it may be a sort of pa...rasitic growth upon the author's personality, developing by internal necessity as much as by external addition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were the destiny of woman thus exactly marked out, did she invariably retain the shelter of a parent's or guardian's roof till she... married, did marriage give her a sure home and a protector, were she never liable to be made a widow, or, if so, sure of finding immediate protection from a brother or new husband, so that she might never be forced to stand alone one moment, and were her mind given for this world only, with no faculties capable of eternal growth and infinite improvement, we would still demand of her a far wider and more generous culture than is proposed by those who so anxiously define her sphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »