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One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.
You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had ...
My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
Of course, people should improve, and their unpleasant behavior should change, however trivial it appears to be. Yet, taking these relatively trivial actions into our ...
If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but ...
Imagine a perfect world
It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom ...
So Basically I'm the Antichrist , and the whole world is fucked because of me - Jordon Hanson.
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
Keep your hands on the break hoods or about a thumb's length from the stem on either side of the bar. You will have more ...
I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,
Is it true that some stories only just manage to be born? Or do these stories always seek their own path into the world and ...
Again, I stuffed down the grief and opened the door wide to denial. I may have looked okay on the outside, but inside I was ...
Women only cut their hair in times of crisis ... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control ...
I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me.
You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously.
I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.
The journey was brutal, the results were glorious.
Never praise oneself.
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
There's real trouble in the world. The kind that can't be fixed. The kind we lie awake keeping vigil against. Love is not trouble. It's ...
Find your inside beautyness. For me, being beautiful inside is more important that being beautiful outside. Make-up is so good for that because it helps ...
I do not suppose you have anything less potent?" "Certainly," he said. "I have the finest champagne, imported from France." "No doubt smuggled," Miss Hobson ...
Practice makes permanent.
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Like a child joyfully waving a sparkler, the fairy godmother crisscrossed her wand, and the sturdy orange pumpkin exploded into an elegant gold coach supported ...
I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.
One should never fear sorrow because it is the stepping stone to happiness," - Rig Veda ...
The Father of Glory (Ephesians 1:17), sent the Lord of Glory to lift up the man who had been crowned with the Glory, but had ...
You may have caught my heart before but not my name. Lynch Katlan.
They made it so that we can't change it from within. They made it so we must kill to break it. If we be monsters, ...
I dance because it makes me want to explode.
Multi-talented, multi-tasker, matched by few, hated by many. I wear a lot of shoes and the names don't matter, so long as I'm in 'em-Black ...
It's not only OK to be different, it's awesome and admirable and courageous and heroic. It's your differentness that is your destiny and your happiness, ...
It's important to remember that regardless of what happens during the day, we can go to bed at night and tell ourselves that we are ...
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from ...
Life without sports is like life without underpants
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the ...
To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.
If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.
A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.
Man studies simultaneously in three schools. The body is tutored on earth. All the cells of the body perform a particular service, and at the ...
In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi
Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.