Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "charac...ter issues." Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Wilson got upon his legs in those days he seems to have gone into a sort of trance, with all the peculiar illusions and delus...ions that belong to a pedagogue gone mashugga. He heard words giving three cheers; he saw them race across a blackboard like Mexicans pursued by the Polizei; he felt them rush up and kiss him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as in...to the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure. The Atlantic is a Lethean stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity to forget the Old World and its institutions. If we do not succeed this time, there is perhaps one more chance for the race left before it arrives on the banks of the Styx; and that is in the Lethe of the Pacific, which is three times as wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only place ...where there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics.... We have: one, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inact...ion, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh mother of a mighty race, Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!... The elder dames, thy haughty peers, Admire and hate thy blooming years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From three to six months, most babies have settled down enough to be fun but aren't mobile enough to be getting into trouble. This... is the time to pay some attention to your relationship again. Otherwise, you may spend the entire postpartum year thinking you married the wrong person and overlooking the obvious--that parenthood can create rough spots even in the smoothest marriage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly lik...eable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yet... appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »