There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move...
Again, it's about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it. It's very important that the older generation sees this, feels it, and tastes it. Otherwise they beco...
All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create.....
He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them; he must show how these parts originated, and how they came to be in that relation in which they stand to each other. ...
Kent Mansley: Please, Sir, I've got a feeling about this one. General Rogard: That's nice, Mansley, but let me explain how things are supposed to work. If you had, say, a footprint, I might be able to send over an expert to make a plaster cast of it....
Jon Osterman: Will you smile? If I admit I was wrong? Laurie Juspeczyk: About what? Jon Osterman: Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in hum...
Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
Dreams seem to generate a special kind of passion and willpower, both of which help people navigate the seas of life.
Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.
Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.
We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.
