Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have bles...sed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The information links are like nerves that pervade and help to animate the human organism. The sensors and monitors are analogous ...to the human senses that put us in touch with the world. Data bases correspond to memory; the information processors perform the function of human reasoning and comprehension. Once the postmodern infrastructure is reasonably integrated, it will greatly exceed human intelligence in reach, acuity, capacity, and precision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Franceska: I was happy in the life I built up for myself. I put a fine high wall of music around me and nothing could touch me. I ...was safe and secure. And then you had to come along and knock it all down and I hate you for that. Maxwell: On the contrary, you love me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistak...e, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear... about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Don't touch me, please I say, don't touch me, please. I'll not be put to bed by you, my man."... "Just as you say. Have it your own way, then. 'My man is it?' You talk like a professor...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, a...nd there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I was your luxury. For nineteen years I have been put in your man's world and was forbidden to touch anything and you made me t...hink that all was going very well and that I did not have to worry about anything but putting flowers in vases. Why did you lie to me? Why did you keep me ignorant, if it was to admit to me one day that this world is cracking and that you are all powerless and to make me choose between a suicide and a murder?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »