Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front.
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.
If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact.
Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation, threats, blackmail, etc. and instead of using them against the enemy, they used these tactics against their own side.
I hate cars that much, I don't even own one. The last one I bought was a Honda CR-V which I didn't even take for a test drive because I was so disinterested. But I love 'Top Gear.'
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
A lot of the discussion about rolling back the Affordable Care Act is about dismantling the marketplaces where individuals are shopping for their own coverage when they don't get it in their workplace.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.
Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.
