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Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted. ”
I believe change is the only constant in life, and there is a place and time for everything. ”
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. ”
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ”
The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg. ”
We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. ”
The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change. ”
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem. ”
If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once. ”
Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.' ”