All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.