Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
I'm myself, not a label.
Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages. . . In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry's paramour - woo hoo - how great would that be? But wait a minute. . . er, no, probably kind of a nightmare.
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.
We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.