The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
If there is one thing that most economists agree about in the realm of tax policy, it is that it's best to broaden the base of any tax, all else being equal. That means minimizing the number of deductions and exclusions from taxable income in order to lower marginal rates and reduce distortions.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.
A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
You can not define being exactly on time.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.
The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.
Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.
I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.
