The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attenti...on for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never yet has there been a superman. I have seen them both naked, the greatest and the smallest men:--and they are still all- too-...similar to one another. Verily, even the greatest I found to be--all-too-human.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cov...er the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are few books which are fit to be remembered in our wisest hours, but the Iliad is brightest in the serenest days, and embod...ies still all the sunlight that fell on Asia Minor. No modern joy or ecstasy of ours can lower its height or dim its lustre, but there it lies in the east of literature, as it were the earliest and latest production of the mind. The ruins of Egypt oppress and stifle us with their dust, foulness preserved in cassia and pitch, and swathed in linen; the death of that which never lived. But the rays of Greek poetry struggle down to us, and mingle with the sunbeams of the recent day. The statue of Memnon is cast down, but the shaft of the Iliad still meets the sun in his rising.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These young women have had four years of very special space.... This has been special space. This has been safe space. But when th...ey graduate, they will begin to deal on a daily basis, all day long, month after month, year after year, with the realities that still haunt our nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here stands the row of enormous stelæ that have furnished the date that links the Mayan calendar to ours. These stones standing g...rimly in line, swelling with the enormous strength of their halfobliterated carvings, still give you, through all the confusion of races and empires long dead, of languages and writings that can never be understood, a feeling of serene order and form... so that after seeing them, the railroad and the guns and the overseers and the loading sheds and the uptodate malaria hospital, all the carefully organized machinery for efficiently squeezing...the sweat and blood of the yellow brown and white mongrel race of workers who live in the rows of company shacks...seems feeble and flabby, not organization at all, not order at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up ...till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we often ask ourselves here despairingly: "What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why can't people live peacefully together? Wh...y all this destruction?" The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?... Oh, why are people so crazy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation... consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »