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.
The pessimist says opportunities are NO WHERE. The optimist says opportunities are NOW HERE. Both see the same words, but read it differently. That's Life! -RVM
The pessimist says opportunities are NO WHERE. The optimist says opportunities are NOW HERE. Both see the same words, but read it differently. That's Life!-RVM
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. More than likely, they'd do both.
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.
There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.
Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they must lose and that the other must win... Both must win!
