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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need read more
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are read more
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as read more
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience read more
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a read more
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old read more
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
