I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
The readiness is all.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.
What do the 5%, or the 1% actually use their money for? They lend it back to the economy at large, they load it down with debt. They make their money by lending to the bottom 95%, or the bottom 99%. When you give them more after-tax income, it enables them to buy even more control of government, even more control of election campaigns. They're not going to spend this money back into the goods-and-services economy.
I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.