O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

My face flushed hot as I looked around. My joke had gone down like a cup of sick.

One patient, a pedophile with a long history of arrests, penal incarceration, psychiatric admissions, and outpatient psychotherapy, commented that in the past when he saw a juvenile male playing, he (the patient) would without hesitation approach the boy and make a sexual proposition. When he was on MPA [medroxyprogesterone acetate] therapy, he stated that, at worst, when he saw such a juvenile, he only smiled with appreciation for the boy's good looks and otherwise kept about his business.

Even the most pig-headed vestry-man feels that something unpleasant has been said about him when he has been called a Philistine, though he may have the vaguest possible conception of its precise meaning. … It is used so vaguely by people who are themselves Philistines of the deepest dye, that it is in danger of losing its meaning.