The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.
I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
I'm a powerful S. O. B. , you know that?
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
What Medicaid basically does is allows them to choose the two base years that they would calculate current their reimbursement levels on. And they all have per-capita allotments based upon what the states are experiencing today in terms of Medicaid costs. And then those are inflated over the years, the next decade, increased at the rate of inflation. And so they have to figure out how to take those dollars and put them to the best use in the state.
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.