A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a... bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said "Talk, child." Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she be...gan: "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" "Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human ...tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgmen...ts of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gentleman took three or four strides across the room, looked out of the window once or twice, and then turned to me with an aw...kward bow and an irresistible air (as I fancy he thought it), and made me the polite compliment of telling me that he supposed my father had informed me that they two were agreed on a bargain. I replied, I did not know my father was of any trade or had any goods to dispose of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had got away. That was my victory. The real quarrel with Ireland began to burgeon in me then; I thought of how it had warped me,... and those around me, and their parents before them, all stooped by a variety of fears--fear of church, fear of gombeenism, fear of phantoms, fear of ridicule, fear of hunger, fear of annihilation, and fear of their own deeply ingrained agression [sic] that can only strike a blow at each other, not having the innate authority to strike at those who are higher. Pity arose too, pity for a land so often denuded, pity for a people reluctant to admit that there is anything wrong. That is why we leave. Because we beg to differ. Because we dread the psychological choke. But leaving is only conditional. The person you are is anathema to the person you would like to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, th...an on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »