Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.
As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.
Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.
Global companies can raise capital much easier than local Indian companies can because they have access to many more markets than we do, and this ends up distorting competition.
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption.
