Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. They did not know it ...was a deed of fame they were doing. These men did not babble of glory. They never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most. They supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle, without paying tribute to any but their governors. And as they had no fear of man, they yet did have a fear of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had let preadolescence creep up on me without paying much attention--and I seriously underestimated this insidious phase of chil...d development. You hear about it, but you're not a true believer until it jumps out at you in the shape of your own, until recently quite companionable child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How much time, approximately, can a worker in a hectic, speeded-up world give to his work and be a sane, all-round, informed, and ...recreated citizen? Unless he lives near his work, due allowance must be made for going and coming. Eight hours for sleep and eight hours for family and social life, education, recreation, and other activities which include, in the case of many women workers, keeping house and clothes in order and taking care of a family, and in the case of all workers, occasional visits to dentists and doctors, paying gas bills and the thousand and one other things an increasingly complicated life thrusts upon even the humblest, seem minimal for the "mechanics of living."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house--in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room... he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are payin...g attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I hate to bring up a subject that may cause you to break out in hives," I said, "but what were you thinking of paying me for each... of these columns?" "We were thinking of something in the high two figures, " Navasky said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »