By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
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Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.
If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.
... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what__ right.
... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.
You cannot hinder someone__ free will, that__ the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
It__ an artist__ right to rebel against the world__ stupidity.
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It__ like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.