Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was,... or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan, or thought:... no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept: terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities of escape open: no route shut,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"To my thinking" boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, "the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation ...of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus." "And yours," said the P.B.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the futu...re which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future--with a shopping center for twice the population, with a school building already built, with churches constructed, with parks and playgrounds and swimming pools. These were as essential to building a suburb as the prematurely grand hotel had been to building a city in the wilderness. In large developments where the developer had a plan, and even in the smaller developments, there was a new kind of paternalism: not the quasi-feudal paternalism of the company town, nor the paternalism of the utopian ideologue. This new kind of paternalism was fostered by the American talent for organization, by the rising twentieth century American standard of living, and by the American genius for mass production. It was the paternalism of the market place. The suburban developer, unlike the small-town booster, seldom intended to live in the community he was building. For him community was a commodity, a product to be sold at a profit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" makes a giddy sound, not strong... Like "rent," "feeding a wife," "satisfying a man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And plenitude of plan shall not suffice Nor grief nor love shall be enough alone... To ratify my little halves who bear Across an autumn freezing everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan t...o punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small ...you are if you have faith and plan of action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The health plan was] constructed to be deconstructed. [Instead,] it was described as an ultimatum by our opponents and therefore ...used to undermine the process of reaching agreement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »