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Someone once defined a theologian as a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that was not there.
When we step out of our Perfect You, we will be in conflict and this will make us frustrated and unhappy, and even temporarily reduce ...
Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we ...
What gets watched, gets done
There was something humiliating, too, in a display of grief when the relationship had been unwitnessed. No, this was to be a private suffering, like ...
The sub-conscious mind is like a bank - a universal bank; it magnifies whatever you deposit or impress upon it
Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinholeJust like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound.
If you avoid the rejection, you avoid the opportunity.
I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become ...
It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.
He's too tired to squirm clear of her, which is good 'cause pinching and kissing and hugging will calm an Italian mother-person better than anything.
He's not better than you, I replied. He's just better for me.
Shimon ben Azai said: Do not despise any person, and do not dismiss any thing, for there is no one who does not have his ...
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use their sexual superiority to gain economic advantages. So who ...
Great things tend to be undoable things. Whereas small things, lovingly done, are always within our reach.
Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.
Learning never ends, therefore, have a keen eye for learning and studying how successful business and people run the little things that business people might ...
We all carry a dancer in ourselves. Even if we do not know anything about this dancer within us, we have the urge to awaken ...
Tragedy is the price of glory.
His young wife - thirty years his junior - ran toward him with open arms. Rather than simply embracing him, she leaped onto him, wrapped ...
Well, we all have our specialties, Harold." For example, you are a wanking accountant.
Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sunBut they look to the West, to the crimson West, ...
Democracy is interactive ... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
My father was a doctor.
Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.
A good business is based on information, analysis and insight, not speculation or opinion. Not all business owners share
It's much harder to provide a great customer service than I would have ever realised. It's much more art than science in some of these ...
However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must ...
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study ...
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime - just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them ...
We care about knowledge because knowledge is crucial to a worthwhile, valuable life. The questions of epistemology may be abstract, but their importance to our ...
Half truth can be more harmful than a full lie.
I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.
I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.
People simply leave things if they just sense a flaw in it. It does not even matter whether that flaw is actually a flaw or ...
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk ...
It has its ups and downs!
Hope alone can never bring success without hard work.
This diversity comes about due to the interdependency between each other
I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone ...
I'll NEVER be beaten!
I have created a world in which life that supports life thrives and life that destroys life disappears.
Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the ...
I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in ...
In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.
As we try to change society to fit our standards and bring about the sense of peace we long for, it is only when we ...
History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.