There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Second
The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.
The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.
Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife.
Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.
I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so.
If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.