American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.
