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It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you ...
It was consumer pull, rather than business push, that would determine where ads appeared.
The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.
Behind her, the glow of the hotel's fireplace mixed with the aroma of nuts cooking in a cinnamon glaze. Although it was
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for ...
I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, ...
Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to ...
Obedience brings understanding.
His worst fantasy her realityhe pulls the stringsdoes unspeakable thingsA sadistic entrancefor his acceptance
Lifting my hands from the keyboard, I fold them in my lap and tilt back my desk chair. I think, I could do it. I ...
While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence or be abusive ...
Hell is all desire without the possibility of fulfillment. Heaven is all fulfillment without the possibility of desire.
Law enforcement is a calling. It's about being willing to serve the public as a protector of the innocent and enforcer of the law. The ...
Momentum carried the truck's rear wheels up and off the ground. From the perspective of Howard's low-slung sports car, the heaving back end of the ...
Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary ...
An opportunity falls into your lap, accept it with confidence and pride, knowing that you've earned it.
Took that money and flipped it into a 70-unit complex in Huntsville. I paid
The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.
By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet per ...
It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Never try to solve the problem for the spirits by thinking about the details, but think of how you will feel when it is solved ...
Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.
Even in the virtual world, it's still all about "location, location, location." Furthermore, virtual-world sellers of products and content have very predictable demand patterns - ...
'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings ...
Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." -Oprah Winfrey-
Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.
Much of the country cursed Aaron Burr. He never recovered his political reputation. He wandered Europe for several years. When he was an old man, ...
I can't say that exhaustive research and reporting will guarantee a great story, but I've never been able to pull one off without it.
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; ...
Cranberry Catsup
Beautiful relations are based on bricks of trust, sometimes situations become unfriendly with no logical reasons behind it, some are eye-openers and some make you ...
I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
Life's battles don't often go, to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or late the one who wins is the one who thinks he ...
We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.
One of the greatest challenges for all of us is to learn how to live in the world without participating in all that it offers. ...
In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but ...
Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail
Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.
They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to sing my way ...
Common thieves like Ludlow were simply another London
There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old ...
Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings
Don't get caught up in trying to make deals out of non-deals.
It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.
What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, ...
The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost ...
How All Teachers Can (and Must) Be Reading Teachers
If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go ...
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies ...