A child is born with the potential ability to learn Chinese or Swahili, play a kazoo, climb a tree, make a strudel or a birdhouse,... take pleasure in finding the coordinates of a star. Genetic inheritance determines a child's abilities and weaknesses. But those who raise a child call forth from that matrix the traits and talents they consider important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the po...lar ice cap will melt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporti...ng itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two polar aspects of the contemporary American character collided that day in Dallas--a consideration which, in going beyond p...olitics, goes far to explain why it had to be Kennedy. For John Kennedy was everything that Lee Oswald was not. He existed directly in the vivid center of reality, he was potent in every way, his life and personality were one continuous action and interaction; he was neither dualistic, separated, nor helpless; he had never been prevented from experiencing himself as alive and consequential. Oswald struck back at everything he was not, but in a sense he was performing a Kennedy-like act (as far as he could imagine one), and was attempting to become the sort of man he killed by the very act of killing. And so all that was starved, thwarted and hopeless in our national life took its pathetic and sullen revenge on all that was most vital, potent, and attractive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silk--but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' ca...bles & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the book--on risk of a lumbago & sciatics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So they came and went every day, with a peculiar shriek from the locomotive, from and to some point of the polar regions, as it se...emed to me, like a flock of arctic snowbirds. But sometimes Squaw Walden had her revenge, and a hired man, walking behind his team, slipped through a crack in the ground down toward Tartarus, and he who was so brave before suddenly became but the ninth part of a man, almost gave up his animal heat, and was glad to take refuge in my house, and acknowledged that there was some virtue in a stove.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Have pulled the Immortal Rose;... And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept, The Polar Dragon slept, His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep....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 »