A Clown Needn't Be The Same Out Of The Ring As He Has To Be When He's In It. If You Look At Photographs Of Clowns When They're Just Being Ordinary Men, They've Got Quite Sad Faces.
I Think That Poetry Is Important When You Are Shipwrecked, When The Ordinary Structures That Hold You Up Are Gone.
An Aged Rabbi, Crazed With Liberalism, Once Said To Me, We Jews Are Just Ordinary Human Beings. Only A Bit More So!
If Warren Buffett Made His Money From Ordinary Income Rather Than Capital Gains, His Tax Rate Would Be A Lot Higher Than His Secretary's. In Fact A Very Small Percentage Of People In This Country Pay A Big Chunk Of The Taxes.
It Is Hard To Go On Living Without Some Hope Of Encountering The Extraordinary.
There Are Not Enough Rich And Powerful People To Consume The Whole World; For That, The Rich And Powerful Need The Help Of Countless Ordinary People.
Only By Restoring The Broken Connections Can We Be Healed. Connection Is Health. And What Our Society Does Its Best To Disguise From Us Is How Ordinary, How Commonly Attainable, Health Is. We Lose Our Health -- And Create Profitable Diseases And Dependencies -- By Failing To See The Direct Connections Between Living And Eating, Eating And Working, Working And Loving.
The Lowest Form Of Popular Culture - Lack Of Information, Misinformation, Disinformation, And A Contempt For The Truth Or The Reality Of Most People's Lives - Has Overrun Real Journalism.
