The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mothers spend as much time as those at home reading to and playing with their young children, although they do not, of course, spend as much time simply in the same room or house with the children.
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.