Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
Canadians are hardly assertive or demanding. We don't expect U.S. presidents to bow down to our prime ministers when they visit us in Ottawa, nor are we looking for the occasional kickback on an F-16 deal.
Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
In my judgment, us assisting the Chinese military in advancing technologically is not in U.S. national interests.
If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.
None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
