I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.
The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another
The U. S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.
We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.
I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.
Time goes from present to past.
When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.