I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space with all other matter.
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants airports streets hotel lobbies parks and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal or having any import to the world at large as opposed to men's work which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education health care political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends it shows his mind working in real time sentence by sentence in what feels like a private audience with the reader.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death the real and the imagined past and future the communicable and the incommunicable high and low cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one things that simply won't be got rid of.
Up until the Depression recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.