The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.
What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
The study of man is the study of his extensions.
We never need feel we are alone or unloved in the Lord's service because we never are. The Savior has promised angels on our left and on our right to bear us up, and he always keeps his word.
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.
