THE INCREASING UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
PART DOS:
"THE SECOND DEATH. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous. Our young people POST THEIR DEEPEST THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC WEB SITES. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It's as if we are screaming. NOTICE ME! Remember me!..."
"Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i'."
"He also, on occasion, told the joke about a man who complains to his doctor that his wife, when angry, gets HISTORICAL."
"'You mean HYSTERICAL,' the doctor says."
"'No, historical,' the man says. 'She lists the history of every wrong thing Ive ever done!"'
"...marriage was an endangered institution."
"'And if you don't commit?' I asked."
"Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side."
"What's on the other side?"
"'Ah.' He smiled. 'A happiness YOU CANNOT FIND ALONE."'
"On my way out, I took one last peek into the gym. I heard the steady hum of the blowers and saw the shadowy bumps under blankets, some lying still, some tossing slightly. It's hard to express what hit me then, except the thought that every one of those bumps was a man, every man once a child, every child once held by his mother, and now this: a cold gym floor at the bottom of the world.
I wondered how---even if we had been disobedient---THIS WOULDN'T BREAK GOD'S HEART."
"Did you feel guilty cursing God---you, of all people?"
"No, because even in doing so, I WAS RECOGNIZING THERE WAS A GREATER POWER THAN ME."
"When you give, you get."
"Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal or kill. Even nature can work for you or against you: fire can warm or burn; water can sustain life or flood it away."
-Have A Little Faith, by Mitch Albom