Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.
The child must teach the man.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.
Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ. '
Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?