Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clea...n cannot be had.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fashion required the suppression of all naturalness--'to walk upright, with unbending joints; to shake hands after the pump- handl...e formula; to look inexpressibly indifferent towards everybody and everything; and speak only in a mincing voice was to be a decorous member of society.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your ...life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking... forward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find th...e positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I walked abroad in a snowy day; I asked the soft snow with me to play;... She played and she melted in all her prime, And the winter called it a dreadful crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A machine is characterized by sustained, autonomous action. It is set up by human hands and then is more or less set loose from hu...man control. It is designed to come between man and nature, to affect the natural world without requiring or indeed allowing humans to come into contact with it. Such is the clock, which abstracts the measurement of time from the sun and the stars: such is the steam engine, which turns coal into power to move ships or pump water without the intervention of human muscles. A tool, unlike a machine, is not self-sufficient or autonomous in action. It requires the skill of a craftsman and, when handled with skill, permits him to reshape the world in his way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green,... The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »