People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic. " I'd describe that experience as "edifying. " I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.
It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.