I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
Many presidents have believed in God, but Donald Trump evidently believes that he is God.
If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You!
If God is good half the Bible is libel.
Epigrams delight us into wisdom.
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
Donald Trump accused Huma Abedin of sharing state secrets with her husband. I think Trump clearly lacks a sense of Huma.
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. . . . A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.
American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat does. But people need to mobilize and build up small-d democratic institutions to prepare against that eventuality.
Observation is an old man's memory.