Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby. . . it inspires him.
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women. . . But it's not nice, so let's stop it.
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
There is no defense against a base on balls.
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.