Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.
The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their ...
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallise...
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
My penis is empty, like a straw. That’s the real value of it.
. . . I don’t believe that celebrity spokeswomen get their hair colour from a box.
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
