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Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
I think we should all earn our place in the world. [...] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.
But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls.
I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.
In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person.
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.
Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.
There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.
Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina
Carter leaned toward me and brushed the hair away from the side of my face. "Don't look down then," he whispered.
He looked up at me with angelic eyes. "Doing what?" "You know what. You're luring me in. You know I can't resist-
You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.
Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.
Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
They may never say it, but your parents really are proud of you when you follow your heart and chase your dreams.
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.
Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning
Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.
The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.