God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.
Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye.
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near. . . She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was, shivering with the desire to go to her". . . [later, Molly asked the cat] "Why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her. " "If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. . . The price is more than a cat can pay.
Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.