Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work.... Gold-hoarding... goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is no argument against teaching manners to the young. On the contrary, it is a fine old tradition that ought to be resurrecte...d from its current mothballs and put to work...In fact, children are much more comfortable when they know the guide rules for handling the social amenities. It's no more fun for a child to be introduced to a strange adult and have no idea what to say or do than it is for a grownup to go to a formal dinner and have no idea what fork to use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lena Aysgarth: Johnnie, there's going to be no more borrowing. Johnnie Aysgarth: Well, what else is there to do?... Lena: You've got to go to work. Johnnie: Work! Lena: Yes, work. Johnnie: You mean put on old clothes, go out with a shovel. Lena: Oh, don't be flippant. Johnnie: Well, what do you mean? I'm afraid you're a bit of a dreamer darling. Let's be practical about this. Do you know statistics on unemployment? Do you realize that in order to be a plumber or a carpenter or an electrician, darling you haven't been around, they have to be an apprentice first, even after that--oh darling!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why don't you put something on the phonograph, a low-down mean blue. Play it over and over again until you crack it and get sick o...f it and then go back to work. I do it all the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in t...he younger ore and better veins of the mine--and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so--and now the dross is coming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put simply, conservatives highlight the government's role in promoting individual virtue but downplay the government's responsibil...ity to create a society in which virtue can flourish. Liberals are wary of regulating personal behavior, but would give government a powerful say over the shape of social and economic life. In essence, liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the c...onditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been en...couraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strikes have been put down by force; but now for the real remedy. Can't something [be] done by education of the strikers, by j...udicious control of the capitalists, by wise general policy to end or diminish the evil? The railroad strikers, as a rule, are good men, sober, intelligent, and industrious. The mischiefs are:-- 1. Strikers prevent men willing to work from doing so. 2. They seize and hold the property of their employers. 3. The consequent excitement furnishes an opportunity for the dangerous criminal classes to destroy life and property.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »