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... my one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason,... More
... prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic... More
...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about... More
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless,... More
...I still have faith occasionally in the brotherhood of man, and in spite of all the tragedies... More
A central theme in the speculative writing on technology of the past century is that forms of... More
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. More
A computer does not think, it feels nothing, and what it is said to “know”—bits of... More
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply... More
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net... More
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of... More
A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating... More
A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a... More
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but... More
A more equal, if threadbare illustration of the antithesis between humanism and the gospel of... More
A more problematic example is the parallel between the increasingly abstract and insubstantial... More
A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those... More
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work;... More
A personality is an indefinite quantum of traits which is subject to constant flux, change, and... More
A poem is like a person. Though it has a family tree, it is important not because of its... More
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture.... More
A successful woman preacher was once asked “what special obstacles have you met as a woman in... More
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a wind-mill, a winnowing flail, the... More
A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a... More
A woman’s asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person’s demanding... More
Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private... More
Adults understandably assume that the level of verbal proficiency a five-year-old displays... More
Aesthetically at odds, these two genres of mass humor form a Janus face of American culture.... More
Age affects how people experience time. The observations on this are well known, so it is only... More
All cultural products contain a mixture of two elements: conventions and inventions. Conventions... More
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and... More
All the scientists hope to do is describe the universe mathematically, predict it, and maybe... More
Although there are not real winners or losers, in games of pretending children soon learn that... More
Although there was a great deal of invention in Whitman’s revolutionary work, he built upon a... More
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have... More
America is a much newer experiment in human living, one with moral concerns at its core. In this... More
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended... More
Americans living in England are remarkably consistent in their reactions to the English. Most of... More
Americans, we find, are not having much partnered sex at all—at least not much compared to what... More
An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and... More
An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound... More
Animal liberationists do not minimize the obvious differences between most members of our species... More
Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings,... More
Answering questions can be a responsibility. Children think that their parents have all the... More
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as... More
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls... More
Anyone having that dual familiarity with prewar small towns and modern shopping malls will ... be... More
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, a stranger in a strange land, and walk... More
As a theater strategist, Lee often demonstrated more brilliance and apparent originality than... More
As children, women are encouraged to be “little ladies.” Little ladies don’t scream as... More
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some... More
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. More
As survivals from an archaic order, serfdom and slavery had common conflicts with a modern world... More
As the distinctions among the arts are distinctions among the sensorial directions of aesthetic... More
At the outstart of discussions of women’s intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how... More
Athletes and actors—let actors stand for the set of performing artists—share much. They share... More
Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope,... More
Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal... More
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry,... More
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition... More
Because work involves producing things, it takes place within fixed boundaries. Not only is it... More
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But... More
Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I... More
Between the Christian and Roman ideals of the early centuries A.D. there is a disjunction which... More
Blake and Goethe were individualists par excellence, uncompromisingly protective of their single... More
Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if... More
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had... More
Both Look Homeward, Angel and Tristram Shandy defy formal analysis. Both are concerned with the... More
Both peoples had a clearly defined consciousness of being different from all other peoples: The... More
Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great... More
Both terrorist groups and cults tend to become countercultures with their own codes of behavior... More
Both were predominantly ethical in aim and doctrine; theory of knowledge (logic) and of nature... More
But I must needs take my petulance, contrasting it with my accustomed morning hopefulness, as a... More
But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior... More
But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and... More
By hero, we tend to mean a heightened man who, more than other men, possesses qualities of... More
Byron and Elvis Presley look alike, especially in strong-nosed Greek profile. In Glenarvon, a... More
Byron’s revealing line, “And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘Tis that I may not weep,”... More
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall... More
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for... More
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking... More
Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of “individuation,” the process whereby a person... More
Certainly for us of the modern world, with its conflicting claims, its entangled interests,... More
Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the... More
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of... More
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie... More
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon—destroying ignorance, poverty... More
Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste,... More
Computers were originally just supposed to be number-crunchers, but now their number-crunching... More
Computers “remember” things in the form of discrete entries: the input of quantities,... More
Concepts are, so to speak, problem-solving devices, the internal equivalent of technologies; they... More
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of... More
Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition,... More
Dating at least from ancient Rome, the holiday was a time of public and communal celebration, a... More
Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men... More
Definitions are like belts. The shorter they are, the more elastic they need to be. A short belt... More
Despite crime’s omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order... More
Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a... More
Despite the great differences in the objectives of the two men, there are important similarities... More
Different as the two poets are in many ways, and though Frost conducted a kind of private war... More

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