It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause th...em to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing--"Carry a message to Garcia!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you learned to compress almost everything in the first sentence, and the only phrase you needed was "plans were made to organi...ze." It took me a day to learn this, and that is all you have to learn in newspaper writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to st...rangle you simply because it is Christmas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Away profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause? This refers to that, and that to the next, and the next to the third, ...and everything refers. Thou must ask in another mood, thou must feel it and love it, thou must behold it in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be, but gladly beloved and enjoyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned la...ws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.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 »
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep the...m, because 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 tranquility will return again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus I believe that without doing violence to the ancient doctrine of the Chinese, one can say that the Li has been brought by the... perfection of its nature to choose, from several possibilities, the most appropriate; and that by this means it has produced the Ki (Ch'i) or matter with dispositions such that all the rest has come about by natural propensities, in the same way that Monsieur Descartes claims to bring forth the present order of the world as a consequence of a small number of initially generated assumptions. Thus the Chinese, far from being blameworthy, merit praise for their ideas of things being created by their natural propensity and by a pre-established harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral h...as a right to take account of facts, even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war; I say that again and again. I hope the United States will keep out of this war, I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. As long as it remains within my power to prevent there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »