The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and gives strong sanction to) ...
I'm from East Texas, yes.
Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our mi...
Even Winnipeggers who depart for Toronto, Calgary or Vancouver never assimilate or fully lose their regional identity. They remain stuck on their birthplace, in the middle of the flat, snowy, buggy, flood-prone and isolated prairie, where everyone se...
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.
We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.
I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
