Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You commonly make your camp just at sundown.... You have no time to explore or look around you before it is dark. You may penetrat...e half a dozen rods farther into that twilight wilderness, after some dry bark to kindle your fire with, and wonder what mysteries lie hidden still deeper in it, say at the end of a long day's walk.... That is as if you had been to town or civilized parts. But there is no sauntering off to see the country, and ten or fifteen rods seems a great way from your companions, and you come back with the air of a much-traveled man, as from a long journey, with adventures to relate, though you may have heard the crackling of the fire all the while,--and at a hundred rods you might be lost past recovery, and have to camp out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foremost logical prerequisite of a rigid classification is that a mental item belong to no more than one category. Such either.../or logic presupposes a digital mode of thinking, which, unlike its analog counterpart, does not tolerate any "gray" shadings among mental fields. "Digital thinking" has a staccato character somewhat evocative of the on/off nature of the conventional light switch or the convulsive progression of time on digital clocks, in marked contradistinction to the smooth, legato style of the dimmer or the traditional analog clock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The office ... make[s] its incumbent a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner is one leak plugged than it is necessary to dash over a...nd stop another that has broken out. There is no end to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a big picture of K. Marx with an axe, "Where I cut off one it will never grow again."... O Karl would it were true I'd put my saw to work for you & the wicked social tree would fall right down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? For i...f the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one fee...ls all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No doubt for the average man nationalism is no more than one of the faiths that live together in actual if illogical partnership i...n his heart and mind (illogical in the sense that some of these faiths, say Christianity and national patriotism, may have mutually incompatible ethical ideals). Yet it is hard to exaggerate the extent to which for many modern Western men the worship of the nation-state occupies a major part of their conscious relations with groups outside the family.... The ritual surrounding the flag, patriotic hymns, the reverent reading of patriotic texts, the glorification of national heroes (saints), the insistence on the nation's mission, the nation's basic consonance with the scheme of the universe--all of this is so familiar to most of us that unless we are internationalist crusaders in favor of a world-state or some other proposed means for securing universal peace we never even notice it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish, said Mr. [Fulke] Greville, men would not pretend to write of what they cannot be masters of. Another country--it is imposs...ible they can be judges; and they ought not to aim at it--for they have different sensations, are used to different laws, manners and things, and consequently are habituated to different thoughts and ideas--'tis the same as if a cow was to write of a horse--or a horse of a cow--why they would proceed on quite different principles, and therefore certainly could be no judge of one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »