The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop – for convenience, the one hundredth meridian – you have reached the West.
BERNARD DEVOTOThe only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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Art is man determined to die sane.
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When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
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When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn.
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The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
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The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
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The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.
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