We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.
We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.
Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
I think, over the last couple of years, the written word has made a comeback on the Internet. For example, I'm seeing more long-form narrative experiments there. The overall noise level, however, continues to increase. Do we really need TV screens to watch when we pump gas? Really?
The whole thing with modeling with Estee Lauder - no one could have a better, nicer modeling job.
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.
Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners
In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.