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I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV; with sticks and stones.
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business…. the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely…but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude…
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment, this day, is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day, each moment of this day, a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
