It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.