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These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to ...
Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take ...
Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny ...
Mind your fantasies, for they become your reality.
You want it? Work for it.
I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists.
The properties of an object are automatically exposed, whereas the variables in a closure are automatically hidden.
This would most effectively open them to the answers they needed, seeing us as allies in their search and not as rivals.
We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals ...
Backing up is boring. There, I said it.
It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. ...
History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the people ...
The best people in life make the world a bigger place, then help you grow to fit it.
Worldwide digital storage overtook the amount of information stored on paper and other analogue media for the first time in 2002. By 2007, 94 per ...
What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, ...
Do you think you would have led the life you did if we had no books?
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I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else ...
Our habits are really our values in action.
I used to throw mad parties because I had all this damn money! Some of them got out of hand. People wanted to fight, steal ...
I cringed, though; for as much as I did not want to marry a troll, I was just as certain the troll didn't want to ...
You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian
Because what you and others like you have forgotten or never known is that the responsibility of the strong is to nurture and protect the ...
All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits ...
Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.
Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, ...
Money is 90% emotions and 10% math.
Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.
Life is tough. If you're stupid, it's even tougher.
Losing is like my ex-wife ... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.
Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.
If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done ...
Westering's died out, Jody.
So, what if everything in life is an illusion? Well, choose your illusion; Don't let it choose you.
Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn't.
Someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.
If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, "Wow, that was awesome?" Or would they scratch ...
I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
Life is a Symphony of instruments and there is no limit on how many we can choose to play!
I don't read the news. I make the news
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Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they ...
The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.
The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.
Once upon a time I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just ...
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.