“Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.” HardAbleEnjoyClassMiddleHard WorkPromiseLaborLifetimeFruitSecureMiddle ClassRetiringMedicare Author:Al Franken
“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.” PeopleHumansHardFallPracticeStyleWalkingMountainAppreciateLifetimeManageSkullsUnstable Author:Randall Munroe
“The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.” MindHardWantedFunGoalTermSeriousCallingPureNegativeLifetimeFinalsAlternativesAnalysisOccupationOfferingShort TermHippieColorful Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.” MindHardWorkHard WorkLifetimeHumble Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne
“Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.” HardBigsGrowsMoneyCostLifetimeDevotionMore Money Book:Stranger in a Strange Land Source: Stranger in a Strange Land