Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.
I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
