A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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There growes the flowre of peace, The Rose that cannot wither,
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But thou beneath the sad and heavy line Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark;...
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The land was given as a trust by the Wilder family. It has to revert back to a park.
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Then whisper by that holy spring, Where for her sake I would have died,...
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
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Dear, beauteous Death! the jewel of the just, Shining nowhere, but in the dark;
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'Lord,' then said I, 'on me one breath, And let me die before my death!'
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
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The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
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The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
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Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
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Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.
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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.
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We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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"Lord," then said I, "on me one breath, And let me die before my death!"
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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.
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People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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The cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on the Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities.
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There are notes between notes, you know.
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Obviously something slipped through here.
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