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We live in this world to chase our dream with our passion, not the will of our parents.
To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, ...
The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, ...
Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of ...
..The secrets started when the maid told her friend, the maid next door who told her Mistres, who told the across the street neighbor and ...
Beware of expectations. They ruin us. When we expect anything of anyone, we are asking them to fail.
Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster,
I wish I would have known you earlier so I could love you longer. - Derek Miles
Do not weep, dear friend. Have I not told you that Separation is inevitable from all near and dear to us? Whatever is born, produced, ...
Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness
Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.
You're stuck with me Skyguy-Ahsoka
Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear ...
Love isn't safe. Love is a blinding flash in the dark. It is a leap over a cliff. It is a breathless dive to the ...
Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale. So does first love. It might not be happy, but it ...
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Journalists were among those who thought that way. Clarke Beach, for example, in a September 6 article for the local newspaper, the Star-Bulletin, wrote, "A ...
It's putting the aesthetic of a design before the function of a design. Those two things need to be in balance. Something can look beautiful ...
Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.
Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants' sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good ...
There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your ...
Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.
My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
You can't expect to win the war if you send archers into battle armed with only a bow and an empty quiver.
Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot ...
We always get dressings and sauces on the side. However, we definitely like our glass of wine - or three sometimes. We order dessert but ...
Read; explore; write; read; explore; write; read...
Here's a test you can try at home, Put a 2 year old in a playpen with an apple and a rabbit. If it plays ...
We're not making slides, we design it.
These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they?"Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try ...
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom ...
The Community was dull. It was nice and it was quiet, if you lived in the right places, and there was full employment and nobody ...
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try ...
Furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without
Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen.
God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see the whole picture.
How many remember where they were when the war began on the 1st of September 1939? I remember. I should remember.I started it. My name ...
Guys are bigger, stronger, just like in singles, serving bigger, returning better, and more athletic for sure. I think from my standpoint, just spending more ...
Don't go to the protest. Go out and get laid. Unless you're going to the protest to get laid.
I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.
Connor was....getting farther and farther ahead of me. I was frozen. And sometimes I feel like I haven't quite thawed.
You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.
I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.
Almost all philanthropy is by definition undemocratic, its priorities set by wealthy donors and boards of trustees, who by extension can shape the direction of ...
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.
It was a bowl cut, the hairstyle for someone who doesn't grasp respectable haircuts but suddenly has to have one.
I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are ...
My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, ...