No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.
In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.
Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.
Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.
Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.
When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.
It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority.
Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future