The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.