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None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.
Iranian belief in themselves as a civilization rather than a territorially limited nation.
Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came ...
I am a man. I don't run. I don't lie. I don't cheat, and I don't use. I don't find enjoyment in games, either. I've ...
Fingers clenched around the pommel of her sword. The blade trembled in her hand. Pressure swelled in her chest, her frustration bubbling within. Then she ...
I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
Commerce is the life blood of the City. If we are not careful, government will become the cancer.
To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.
Art museums are little more than big buildings where rectangular old men, hung on the walls by their backs, wait for young people to come ...
Don't judge a book by its movie.
I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten ...
It's a little different being the older guys on the team. We are going to help get the young guys get comfortable. We'll have to ...
I've never had this." I whisper back, my voice shaky. "I want to keep it forever." He
Fashion shows are glamorous for 20 minutes.
Leaders must be arrogant enough to believe they are worth following, but humble enough to know that others may have a better sense of the ...
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.
That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm ...
Never confuse cynicism for intelligence.
I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.
Her mission every minute of the day is to uncover the hilarity in random scenarios.
Being single isn't a social disease.
When I read 'Dream of Red Mansions,' I was really struck by the fact that it was built differently from a lot of genre works. ...
There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to ...
Everything sinful is glamorous these days, isn't it?
Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the ...
All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."
Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and imagine ...
Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even ...
If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a ...
Break all the rules and you'll do just fine
The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.
Jenny heldher breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster.
As soon as we cracked their new encryption.
Being a hero is not all its cracked up to be." - Conor Kelly
She worshiped the ground he walked on and would even eat out of the toilet bowl he took a dump in if it came down ...
Why are there only 24 hours in a day.We should have more and the additional ones should be exclusively cherished for reading.
She looked herself in the eyes and saw that there was nothing left. No sense. It must have gone through that hole in her chest ...
Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.
I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ...
Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail ...
I imagined a book that was both written and curated. I wanted readers to see my research, to explore the archival mix, connect with the ...
Apple is not in the computer business. Apple is in the empowerment business. Nike is not in the sneakers business. It is in the personal ...
It's amazing though," said Kenneth, "what you can get away with if you give up caring about anything else, like self-respect and pride and all ...
The Army can be family. The Army can be religion.
Service to others is the rent yo pay for your room here on earth.
2 grilled chicken breasts, diced 1 avocado, peeled and diced 5-6 green lettuce leaves, cut in stripes 3-4 green onions, finely chopped 5-6 radishes, sliced ...
The number of intercepted phone conversations and e-mail messages doubled in six years, from 265,937 in 2007 to 539,864 in 2012.
If I've learned anything in the past six months, it's that life is a fickle little bitch and there's not one damn thing I can ...