I got the nickname 'Deacon' because I didn't swear, didn't drink, went to church, and did quite a bit of speaking in other churches, youth groups, and so forth.
I have made really some significant deals because I play golf.
I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
Because of a jury-rigged and outdated system meant to track deaths, the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.
Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.
I have declined projects made under big banners because I didn't have much to do in them.
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.
Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.
I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.
We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
