Well, it is a good experience, to divest oneself of some tested ideals, some old standbys, And even finding nothing to put in... their place is a good experience, Preparing one, as it does, for the consternation that is to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made... any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental health data from the 1950's on middle-aged women showed them to be a particularly distressed group, vulnerable to depressio...n and feelings of uselessness. This isn't surprising. If society tells you that your main role is to be attractive to men and you are getting crow's feet, and to be a mother to children and yours are leaving home, no wonder you are distressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, a...nd become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thriven ... on the changes and chanc...es, the dislocations and ... contrasts which have made up so much of my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »