For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness, his inferiors take advantage of his abilities.
A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.
It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.
A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.
Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.