Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be ...glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... that there is no other way, That the history of creation proceeds according to... Stringent laws, and that things Do get done in this way, but never the things We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately To see come into being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a f...ortune at hand, will fail to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world... is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is unjust that Italy should claim musical pre-eminence, even forcing Italian on music as its international language, when Italy...'s genius is so visual. No nation can build towns as beautiful nor claim a better right to regard nature as a shapeless substance to be redeemed by urbifaction. The Italians are not Wordsworthian. Man fulfils himself in the town. There is too much wild nature in music, and it has to be tamed into simple four-square patterns, as in Verdi and Bellini. The tenor does not proclaim Byronically to the woods and hills: he is a kind of sexy politician for the town piazza. The Italians would listen to Aaron, but not to Moses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able ...to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the brain consists of "wires"; a single unit may have thousands of connections with other units and with itself. That is n...ot the case in a standard computer, where a chip usually has less than six connections. Moreover, neurons are much, much slower than the switching elements of the computer. It seems likely that the brain can accomplish its complex feats of perception and thought by means of millions of connections acting in parallel. The connections as a whole define the information content of the system. In this way a vast amount of knowledge can be brought to bear on a decision all at once. The brain seems to be able to perform as many as two hundred trillion operations in a second; not serially, but simultaneously.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should ...surely have killed myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wisest thing a parent can do is to let preschool children figure out themselves how to draw the human figure, or solve a whole... range of problems, from overcoming Saturday-morning boredom to dealing with a neighborhood bully. But even while standing on the sidelines, parents can frequently offer support in helping children discover what they want to accomplish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »