We Must Have Hope Or Starve To

Iowans Know Themselves And What They Are Doing. They Are Doing Well.

No One Really Understood Music Unless He Was A Scientist, Her Father Had Declared, And Not Just A Scientist, Either, Oh, No, Only The Real Ones, The Theoreticians, Whose Language Was Mathematics. She Had Not Understood Mathematics Until He Had Explained To Her That It Was The Symbolic Language Of Relationships. "and Relationships," He Had Told Her, "contained The Essential Meaning Of Life."

For War To Man, Like Childbirth To Women, Is Simplifying In Its Emotions And Activities. All The Real Problems Of Life Can Be Put Aside While The One Thing Is Done And Little Thought Is Needed To Do It. ... His Hatreds Can Be Expressed Without Censure, He Can Let His Emotions Run Free, He Can Behave As Dramatically, As Heroically As He Likes, And No One Laughs At Him. It Is Almost Impossible For A Man To Behave Heroically In The Cool And Ordinary Times Of Peace. But In War Anything Is Allowed Him, He Is Praised And Applauded And Made Much Of, As Women Are Excused And Allowed For In Pregnancy.

We Must Have Hope Or Starve To Death.

Love Can Never Be A Sin. It Can Be Only A Blessing. Even If You're Not Loved In Return -- Though I Can't Imagine That -- To Love Is A Proof Of Life -- Indeed, It's The Only Proof, For Once You Can't Love Another Human Being, You're Not Alive.