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| 662f46c | In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batt.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a4bf2b3 | Mrs. Craven was a very lovely young lady," he had gone on rather hesitatingly. "An' mother she thinks maybe she's about Misselthwaite many a time lookin' after Mester Colin, same as all mothers do when they're took out o' th' world. They have to come back, tha' sees. Happen she's been in the garden an' happen it was her set us to work, an' told us to bring him here." Mary" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 07456e7 | Lottie had always found, while in her own nursery at home, kicking and screaming would always be quieted by any means she insisted upon. Poor plump Miss. Amelia was trying first one method, then another. "Poor darling!" she said one moment; "I know you haven't any mamma, poor-" Then in quite another tone: "If you don't stop, Lottie, I will shake you. Poor little angel! There-there! You wicked, bad, detestable child, I will smack you! I will.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b94edbc | It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real--or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8b7c163 | thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6e227d8 | And a man who is six feet three in height has six feet and three inches of evil to do battle with, if he has not six feet three of strength and honesty to fight for him. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c7342b4 | Yorkshire word and means spoiled and | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a37f9aa | The robin was tremendously busy. He was very much pleased to see gardening begun on his own estate. He had often wondered at Ben Weatherstaff. Where gardening is done all sorts of delightful things to eat are turned up with the soil. Now here was this new kind of creature who was not half Ben's size and yet had had the sense to come into his garden and begin at once. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9d3f480 | I'm growing fatter," said Mary," | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8fc70e3 | They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say, "Here I am -- tell about me." But they did not -- which was their fault and not mine. People who live in the story one is writing ought to come forward at the beginning and tap the writing person on the shoulder and say, "Hallo, what about me?" If they don't, no one can be blamed but themselves and their slouching, idle ways." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 37808d0 | Do you understand everything birds say?" said Mary. Dickon's grin spread until he seemed all wide, red, curving mouth, and he rubbed his rough head. "I think I do, and they think I do," he said. "I've lived on th' moor with 'em so long. I've watched 'em break shell an' come out an' fledge an' learn to fly an' begin to sing, till I think I'm one of 'em. Sometimes I think p'raps I'm a bird, or a fox, or a rabbit, or a squirrel, or even a beet.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 198d26e | The woeful fright in the coal-smutted face made her suddenly so sorry that she could scarcely bear it. One of her queer thoughts rushed into her mind. She put her hand against Becky's cheek. "Why," she said, "we are just the same--I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 74f9ee9 | And the roses--the roses! Rising out of the grass, tangled round the sun-dial, wreathing the tree trunks and hanging from their branches, climbing up the walls and spreading over them with long garlands falling in cascades--they came alive day by day, hour by hour. Fair fresh leaves, and buds--and buds--tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their bri.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e7fdebf | If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things,--help and comfort and laughter,--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f58f9e0 | That's almost like telling lies," she said. "And lies--well, you see, they are not only wicked--they're vulgar." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6ab7488 | She had never felt sorry for herself; she had only felt tired and cross, because she disliked people and things so much. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2ad0a81 | Give her books, and she would devour them and end by knowing them by heart. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2323e9e | Mary] did not know that going outside was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along paths and down the avenue she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which rushed at her face and roared and held her back as if it were some giant she could not see. But the big breaths of rough fresh air blown over the heather filled her lungs w.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 877064a | Papa won't be very long now," she said. "May we talk about the lost little girl?" "I don't think I could talk much about anything else just now," the Indian gentleman answered, knitting his forehead with a tired look." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 970d191 | Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 01c4252 | He found her under my care," she protested. "I have done everything for her. But for me she should have starved in the streets." Here the Indian gentleman lost his temper. "As to starving in the streets," he said, "she might have starved more comfortably there than in your attic." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 26e4a1e | Fair fresh leaves, and buds--and buds--tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c1dc318 | Soldiers don't complain," she would say between her small, shut teeth, "I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4f37d62 | She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| aaf7afd | I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3ef6515 | The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6218939 | Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 939d3d7 | Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. "Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow." -- | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3966a1e | She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c8137b3 | Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one." Lavinia could not think of exactly the right thing to say. Several times she had found that she could not think of a satisfactory reply when she was dealing with Sara. The reason for this was that, somehow, the rest always seemed to be vaguely in sympathy with her opponent. She saw now that they were pricking up their ears interestedly.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e1fa748 | One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 22878a7 | Always true to the code," she said." | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4c7ffaf | By the late eighteenth century, the lowlands of Scotland had developed the most extensive system of education in | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 447ab9a | Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. Two of the biggest proven hoaxes of our time have involved allegations of white men gang-raping a black woman-- first the Tawana Brawley hoax of 1987 and later the false rape charges against three Duke University students in 2006. In both cases,.. | arson bigotry bill-clinton collectivism dorothy-gilliam duke-university intelligentsia jesse-jackson leftism liberalism media media-manipulation new-york-times rape-culture rape-myth statistics | Thomas Sowell | |
| a60d7f2 | Epithets like "fascist" and "imperialist stooge" became common currency, along with unbridled expressions of tribal chauvinism." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 9021dfc | Where beliefs are not checked against facts, but instead facts must meet the test of consonance with the prevailing vision, we are in the process of sealing ourselves off from feedback from reality.Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| fe3cea0 | When it is proclaimed that one must become more "sensitive" to various ethnic, linguistic, sexual, or lifestyle groups, neither a reason nor a definition usually accompanies this opaque imperative." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| cbefc2a | The U.S. Air Force Academy likewise sought racial "diversity" through double standards. A 1982 memorandum on Air Force Academy stationery, with the notation "for your eyes only," listed different cut-off scores to use when identifying possible candidates for the Academy from different racial ethnic groups. Composite SAT scores as low as 520 were acceptable for blacks, though Hispanics and American Indians had to do somewhat better, and Asia.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| cbe377f | Like mismatched minority students, mismatched minority faculty have sought refuge in non-intellectual pursuits, such as community activities and campus political activism, in denunciations of standards they do not meet, and in complaints about the moral shortcomings of colleagues, or of American society in general. Given the stark alternatives of (1) losing one's self-respect by accepting the prevailing academic standards and values, and (2.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 30183b1 | If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you express your opinion that his lifestyle is disgusting and his art, music or writing is crude, shallow, or repugnant, but unless you are free to reach such conclusions, any praise you bestow is hollow and suspect. To say that A has a right to B's approval is to say that B has no right to his own opinion. What is even more.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| d932405 | Just as Karl Marx did not attribute what he saw as the detrimental effects of a market economy to the ill will of individual capitalists, so Adam Smith did not attribute what he saw as the beneficial effects of a market economy to the good will of individual capitalists. Smith's depictions of businessmen were at least as negative as those of Marx,21 even though Smith is rightly regarded as the patron saint of free market economics. Accordin.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 5445186 | Whether blatant or subtle, brainwashing has become a major, time-consuming activity in American education at all levels. Some zealots have not hesitated to use the traditional brain-washing technique of emotional trauma in the classroom to soften up children for their message. Gruesome and graphic movies on nuclear war, for example, have reduced some school children to tears--after which the teacher makes a pitch for whatever movement claim.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 8c0030f | There cannot be a law-abiding society if no one knows in advance what law they are to abide by, but must wait for judges to create ex post facto legal rulings based on "evolving standards" rather than known rules." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 1e62dcf | That educators who have repeatedly failed to do what they are hired to do, and trained to do, should take on sweeping roles as amateur psychologists, sociologists, and social philosophers seems almost inexplicable--except that they are doing it with other people's money and experimenting on other people's children. There | Thomas Sowell |