Just across the Green from the post office is the county jail, seldom occupied except by some backwoodsman who has been intemperat...e; the courthouse is under the same roof. The dog warden usually basks in the sunlight near the harness store or the post office, his golden badge polished bright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, ...and whose talk is of bullocks?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him... who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling... one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half- piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigu...ed. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say--for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental tim...e--but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied ab...out exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling, When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime,... He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling, And listen to the merry village chime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the conse...quent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tract you have ceded will soon be surveyed and sold, and immediately afterwards will be occupied by a white population. You wi...ll soon be in a state of starvation. You will commit depredations upon the property of our citizens. You will be resisted, punished, perhaps killed. Now, is it not better peaceably to remove to a fine, fertile country, occupied by your own kindred, and where you can raise all the necessaries of life, and where game is yet abundant?... You have no right to stay, and you must go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »