What is the sign of a friend? It is that he tells you his secret sorrow? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secrets sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. Have we ever let God tells us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets and lies, leaving Him no time to talk to us? It is so hot in here. Oh, it is so hot, and I need some air. And boy, do not stop because I am halfway there. It is not complicated, we are just syncopated, we can read each other’s minds. One love united, two bodies synchronizing. Do not even need to touch me, Baby. Just breathe on me, yeah, on Baby just breathe on me. We do not need to touch, just breathe, on, yeah. Oh, this is way beyond the physical (it is a way beyond the physical). Tonight, my sense do not make sense at all. Our imagination, taking us to places we have never been before. Take me in, let it out, do not even need to touch me, Baby, just breathe on me. Monogamy is the way to go, just put your lips together and blow. The total being of our life inside and out is to be absolutely obsessed by the presence of God.

If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your spirit, your true inner nature, that is where the problem is. Once your spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Christ, your understanding will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. Skepticism can never be thoroughly applied; else life would come to a standstill: something we must believe in and do, and whatever that something may be called, it is virtually our own judgment, even when it seems like the most slavish reliance on another. It is half the battle to fight a just cause.  Human depravity may oftener justify those who judge harshly than human rectitude can those who judge favorably. Many people speak about justice, but I do not think they know what it means. I think it is just a word they hear and it sounds good to them. Justice is good behavior or fair treatment. Justice means to express fairness, fair play, fair mindedness, equity, evenhandedness, impartiality, objective, neutrality, honesty, righteousness, morals, and morality.

Therefore, justice starts with each and every one of us and how we treat others. In the cold courts of justice the dull head demands oaths, and holy writ proofs; but in the warm halls of the heart one single, untestified memory’s spark shall suffice to enkindle such a blaze of evidence, that all the corners of conviction are as suddenly lighted up as a midnight city by a burning building, which was every side whirls its reddened brands. If people understood justice they would be the first to proclaim, that when two are tied together, the one who does the other serious injury is more naturally excused than the one who calls up the grotesque to extinguish both. Seldom do they prove patient martyrs who are punished unjustly. Strong minds perceive that justice is the highest of the moral attributes; mercy is only the favorite of the weak ones. Calling sternness justice, one extolled that for strength of mind which was only callous insensibility. Justice does not the less exist, because her laws are neglected. A sense of what she commands lives in our hearts; and when we fail to obey that sense, it is to weakness, not to virtue, that we yield. When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.  

Half justice is injustice. I may not be unjust to myself and certainly not have the right to be unjust to anybody. Who does most injustice, a prodigal man or a saving man? The one saves his own money; the other spends other people’s.  If the World is unjust, or rash, in one individual’s case, why may it not be so in another’s? Nothing can be polite that is not just. Is not the man guilty of a high degree of injustice who is more apt to give contradiction than able to bear it? Justice is a severe thing. To do justice in another’s case against oneself is making at least a second merit for oneself. Mercy to a criminal may be gross injustice to the community. Though we cannot overcome, our cause is just. Justice teacheth us not to love punishment, but to fly to it for necessity. Nothing, to the noble heart, is so afflicting as the consciousness of having done injustice. A just medium prevents all conclusions. Justice pays all the debts of yesterday, and nothing else will. A man must be an idiot or else an angel who, after the age of forty, shall attempt to be just to his neighbors. Justice may be purchased too dearly. The Spirit of God witnesses to the redemption of our Lord and to nothing else. The Spirit witnesses only to His own nature and to the work of redemption, never to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty. Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit.

Love, she said, was a woman’s first necessity. For wise and good reasons, God made the knowledge of Himself scarce any otherwise attainable by us, than that of the existence of other beings absent. The will is placed in the soul, and who can enter there but he that created the soul?  Human life partakes of the unrevealable inscrutableness of God. Women’s special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens. Every complete man embraces some of the qualities of a woman, for Nature does not mean that sex shall be more than a partial separation of one common humanity; otherwise we should be too much divided to be companionable. Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved; differences of object does not alter singleness of passion. My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same. As nature has made a great difference in the external appearance of man and woman, we may reasonably expect to find as remarkable a one in their moral character. A female who is at the same time useful and agreeable is as rare as sincerity in a statesman, or humility in an author. It is the highest compliment to give every man his own way; to a lady it is an infallible one.

Women are usually bred up in too low, narrow, and servile a manner of thinking, by being made to believe that their principal objects are to ornament their person, improve their fortunes, and marry rich husbands. As few husbands have little more knowledge than qualifies them for their professions and employments, they seldom require more in their wives than fits them for useful servants. Women love themselves in men. Women, the most beautiful of nature’s flowers, is the most recreant to her laws, and starves with cold and unnecessary forms that divine flame her beauteous system was designed to kindle. The powers of women’s minds are not derived from their bodies; women, in general, think and reflect as well, and quicker than men. Virtue alone is true honor, true freedom, and solid, durable happiness. Virtue is the only nobility. Virtue is God’s empire. A ship is not counted strong by biding one storm. At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural World can gain on our hearts and minds. Of love and marriages, coarse men speak with sneers and obscene jests, while serious men express themselves in hints, with apologetic smiles, as if they were betraying a weakness. I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. A proposal of marriage can never be an insult.

Marriage hath saved many a woman from ruin. A woman who hath given her consent to marry can hardly be said to be safe till she is married. The vindication of the loved object is the best balm affection can find for its wounds: A man must have so much on his mind is the belief by which a wife often supports a cheerful face under rough answers and unfeeling words. Wives set one on to abuse their husbands and then they turn round one and praise ‘em as if they wanted to sell ‘em.  A woman can always be satisfied with devoting herself to her husband, but a man wants something that will make him look forward more. Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. Will any woman hesitate a moment whether she shall ride in a coach, or walk on foot all the days of her life? All things fulfill their destiny. Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without certainty. Nature seeks happiness. The human heart is so fond of happiness, that we give easy credit to what we wish. Happy are they who are blessed with the power of making happy. Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts. Luck is all. Where wit and ingenuity, vivacity, delicacy, and quickness are required, women manifestly excel men. The greater good a man does, in proportion to what he is capable of going, the more manly he is. The drawing room is woman’s element, realm, rather than man’s. Woman is a very peculiar and delicate organism; a sensitive and highly organized women is especially peculiar. It would require an inspired psychologist to deal successfully with them. And when ordinary fellows attempt to cope with their uniqueness the result is bungling. Most women are complicated and whimsical, but flowers, and diamonds will always warm her heart.

The contemplation of beauty, the inherently corrupt soul could transform its love from the physical and material into a purely spiritual love of God. The first representation of the goddess represents innocence itself, a divine beauty free from any hint of physical and the sensual. It is this form of beauty that the soul, aspiring to salvation was expected to contemplate. Woman is the most admirable handiwork of God, in her true place and character. The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it. This woman’s view, a woman’s, whose whole sphere of action is in the heart, and who can conceive of no higher nor wider one.  And man’s desire of Earthly experience draws him to rebirth, and he is born into a form that fits nature as a glove a hand; the soul of a warrior passes into the robust form of a warrior; the soul of a poet into the sensitive cerebral form of a poet, he is still in development. I have know’d that sweetest and best of women ever since afore her First, which Mr. Harris who was dreadful timid went and stopped his ears in a swimming pool, and never took his hands away or come out once till he was showed the baby, wen bein’ took with fits, the doctor collared him and laid him on his back upon the airy stones, and she was told to easy her mind, his owls was organs.

And I have know’d her when he has hurt her feelin’ art by sayin’ of his ninth that it was one to [sic] many, if not two, while that dear innocent was cooin’ in his face, which thrive it did through bandy.  Artist of genius and inspiration were considered to be different from everyone else, and to be guided in their work by insight that was considered divine in origin. Many believed that the goals of truth and beauty were not reached by following the universal rules and laws of classical antiquity, notions of proportion and mathematics. Nor would fidelity to visual reality guarantee beautiful results; in fact, given the fallen condition of the World, quite the opposite was more likely, studies of fellow citizens had demonstrated. This represents a divine frenzy, of the creative act, to transcend the conditions of everyday life. Art now exceeded reality. It is a window, not upon nature, but upon divine inspiration itself. It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the World is a finer one than the last. Like busts in marble, so does out individual fate exist in the limestone of time. Change and change love to deal with men’s settled plans, not with their idle vagaries. This luxuriant and conspicuous display of wealth is deliberate. And through we might want to read into this image our own sense of its decadence, fortune loves to mingle himself in all events.

I realized that it is more important for a writer to say whatever one has to say than to worry about form. It is what one says, not how one says it, that matters, although a writer must know the rules in order to break them effectively. Time is important to the writer. There is so much I want to do, so much I will never have time to do now. I have an enormous amount of drafted stuff I will never be able to finish. Life just is not long enough! Globalization exposes businesspeople to a variety of cultures and business practices. What does it mean for a business to do the right thing in China? In  Japan? In Africa? What may be considered unethical in one country may be an accepted practice in another. Consider bribes, for example. In the United States bribing officials is illegal, but to get something done in Mexico, it is common to pay officials una mordidia (a small bite).  In China, businesses pay huilu, and in Russia, vzyatka. Although the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it illegal for U.S. businesses operating abroad to pay bribes, U.S. companies are allowed to make small payments under certain conditions.  To crack down on illegal payoffs, the industrialized nations have now signed a treaty that makes bribes to foreign officials a criminal offense. Still, bribery will not end just because a treaty has been signed or because it is illegal. Currently, Mayor Kevin Johnson, of Sacramento, California, and the owner of the Sacramento Kings, Vivek Ranadive, are in court fighting a legal battle.

A lawsuit against the city of Sacramento and the Sacramento Kings basketball team claims that  $447 million was given to the Sacramento Kings as part of a deal to build a new arena, and $223 million of that was taxpayer money. Not only that, but after financing, the new arena will cost nearly $1 billion. So the Sacramento King’s and the city of Sacramento knocked down the mall in Downtown Sacramento and even destroyed some historical buildings to make space for the new stadium. To add insult to injury, it has been verified that at least $223 million taxpayer dollars were used to fund the arena, without public consent, and that there is no parking for fans when they go the arena. The arena will have no parking lot. The public already believes that they are paying too much in taxes, and Governor Brown wants to increase taxes to pay for roads and health care. Governor Jerry Brown wants at least $1.3 billion annually to help fund Medi-Cal (medical insurance) and homecare services for the elderly and those with limited mobility, and about $5.7 billion to pay for road repairs, when costs are already included in the price of gas and vehicle registration fees. As a result, the public is being double and tripled taxed. Other problems with the Sacramento King’s arena are that the infrastructure, crumbling roads, and highways will not support the substantial traffic congestion and environmental degradation that the sports complex will attract, in addition to the current traffic overcrowding.  Many also fear that a medical emergency may happen or some other debauchery, and that emergency service will not be able to respond. Therefore, many are calling the funding of the arena fraud. Crimes cause their own detection.