"Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children's infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or... getting married!" That's total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art "scientific" parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions .... You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not go...ing to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I spend so many times for skating, and I gave up so many hobbies for this ... the Olympics are four years in time. And I am old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believe...s itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before ... why do we think we can succeed now?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night,... When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silvered o'er with white: When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard: Then of thy beauty do I question make That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake, And die as fast as they see others grow, And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed to brave him, when he takes thee hence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to b...ecome a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understandin...g of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »