Our sins

If the maker made us with all the faults and sins we possess and exhibit, why is he forbidding us from and punishing us for committing those same sins?

- MG

Our language

Overheard at a grocery store by someone waiting in line behind a woman speaking on her cellphone in another language. Ahead of her was a white man. After she hung up, the man speaks up.

Man: "I didn't want to say anything while you were on the phone, but you're in America now. You need to speak English."

Woman: "Excuse me?"

Man: *very slowly* "If you want to speak Mexican, go back to Mexico. In America, we speak English."

Woman: "Sir, I was speaking Navajo. If you want to speak English, go back to England."

Panta rhei

"No man ever steps in the same river twice."

- Heraclitus

Natives

"Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs."

- Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

Money

"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money."

- Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography