The merit we earn for helping others will continue to accumulate for eternity so go on and be selfish.
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We all know better, and yet we buy in -- pun most depressingly intended -- to the lie, sacrificing what we've earned for temporary relief, at least until the next ad comes on and we begin to think ourselves lacking in some other area.
"Haven't we earned credibility for the press to give us the benefit of the doubt?" he suggested, somewhat plaintively.
At the start, we earned enough for rent, food and outings to local watering holes, but little more.
After coming home, our commanders told us we earned glory for our unit, but I know it's more complicated than that.
We earned our fees for the actual doing it and then we earned our ASCAP and BMI for the broadcast rights, which was awesome.
"We earned a reputation for taking on investigations that the mainstream press didn't have the guts to publish.
For the majority of us, the very nice things we had as teenagers, we purchased with money we earned after saving for some ungodly amount of time.
