Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.
Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
Next, we will create a modern immigration law.
As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
Germany is very free-trade oriented.
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.
I realize political credibility is important in this world,but it's more important to be faithful to God.
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight. ** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p. 23