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He picked up a pebble and threw it onto the solid lake where it bounded and rebounded on the surface of the ice.
If civilization is in danger today ... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than ...
Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.
The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the ...
Ah, paths of the soul, mysterious ways of the heart! One must walk their full lengths before facing the supreme equation of Eternal Life. It ...
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with ...
You're missing the wow factor."Garrett snickered. "Did you really just say wow factor?""Oh, whatever. What are you, twelve?""Twelve inches, baby." Garrett winked.Miller laughed and rolled ...
I think you should leave [the scar]. [...] It's not as bad as you think. It will look better once it is healed. And besides, ...
[I]nternalized experiences of selfhood are linked to autobiographical narratives, which are linked to biographies, legal testimonies, and medical case histories, which are linked to forms ...
Gratitude shouldn't be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.
I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my ...
Most of our tension with others are because they show the reality of us and we can't accept it. People are best mirror.
I've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile.
One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of ...
Bread slathered in it on the griddle. Belinda poured some coffee, yawning as she dumped spoonfuls
Look here', he said, frowning, 'You shouldn't joke about matters related to food.
Since I was a kid, I've never found joy in living. I've always struggled just to feel okay. Everything was a fight against darkness.
...there is a certain freedom to being totally f#cked...
The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.
Filmmaking is artful lying,
This found its classic expression in Homer's Iliad, in which Glaucus says to Diomedes that he still hears his father's urgings ringing in his ears: ...
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
And that survey is the one we all go back to. When you find one of their original corners, it is like a handshake with ...
The Hannah study showed that people are suggestible, willing to view the world with the guidance of labels when faced with an otherwise unbreakable tie.
Where the hell did this come from? Alex flipped through a Pondimin package insert he had found in another box and saw the last line: ...
Today, I'm drawn to repurposing for so many reasons: It allows me to live a more financially pared-down and simple life in which it's possible ...
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should ...
Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as ...
She said, I swear, I put something in my mouth one time, and I'm addicted. I think I have oral fixation issues.
The knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
The same arts that did gainA power, must it maintain.
You always go for the gorgeous ones and you always get kicked in the teeth. When are you going to learn?" "Learn what?" "That they ...
Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie
No one can keep you down except yourself.
The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
A willingness to offer advice on matters that are quite beyond the ken of the adviser seems to be a habit in this part of ...
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
I do not know, but they are very rough. I suppose they would do almost anything for money. They smell strongly of liquor." Slowly
So you, personally, identify as - " "Don't think about it as how I identify. Think about it as how I actually am.
Believe in yourself, even if you're the only one who does.
Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different.
Lenders make their choices with clear preferences: "Africans first, women first, and agriculture first" (Flannery,
Life is a mystery ... if u don't solve it, it's a misery
Do not look for faults in others, but look for faults in yourself, and purge them like bad blood. Do not contemplate your own good ...
If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ...
It's been a long and trying day... but I'm still running with half a gallon of rage in my tank.
I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes ...
The butterfly of Christmastown?
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish ...
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