Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori
An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.
Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here. " (Not yours. ) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.