While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the distinction between natural law and revealed truth. Most of the philosophers of church and state expected that what was going to be advocated as the law of the land would be related to natural law. If you attempted to draw lines about certain general moral truths that were derivative of logic and reason, they would prove to be widely shared, and therefore suitable to be enacted into law on both the civic and religious sides.
I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.
Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!
The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is madegrown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.
God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.