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There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's ...
Pine trees rise through cloud soar up into the blue skies, bush clover spangled with dewdrops sways in the autumn breeze; As I dip cold, ...
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
When you're very anxious, you end up trapped in your head all the time - the prison without walls. Your
Not bad for a bunch of castoffs and misfits.
Keep it real and stay in awe.
Part of why I love New York so deeply is exactly this elusiveness. This refusal to be caught is what allows it to carry such ...
No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION P. 19 The unusual antiquity and reliability of the earliest surviving manuscripts at Leningrad and Cambridge and the surprisingly large number ...
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives ...
The only thing Americans love more than Walmart and firearms (and buying firearms at Walmart) is accents.
There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, ...
This is not a city, it's a labyrinth. One can enter it, but there's no way one can leave.
Quiet laughter fills the tunnel."Now I see why you're so attached to her, Bowen. you're gettin' sugar," Tommy says
In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government ...
Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and ...
Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography ...
My anus, like the inside of my nose, is something I can finger but can't examine.
But then he says, "Everything happens for a reason."And that's an answer I can't handle.
Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have ...
I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay. Only ...
My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
Remembering her own narrow single bed at home, she added without thinking, "Someone could get lost in that bed."Valois laughed, surprising Delta and she looked ...
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same.
Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's ...
I never think about missing a free throw. All that goes through my mind when I'm at the line is seeing the ball go through ...
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is ...
The covenant we make with ourselves is to love ourselves: to center in the devotion to sacred experience, honoring our bodies as temples of spirit, ...
Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get ...
The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way ...
To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.
In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather ...
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
80% of the output comes from 20% of the input.
The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of ...
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say ...
I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really ...
You could have the best idea in the world, but if people don't like you, don't trust you, or don't know you, they're not going ...
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.
Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.
Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.
Needed my collegiate heroics to mean something more than just the Olympian like state of my liver.
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.