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 »
The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting childr...en and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happ...y endings. But I've never dreamed I could actually reshape the real world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there'...s almost nothing you can do to reshape it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are out...growing, or trying to reshape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »