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The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to ...
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn ...
Life is as simple or complicated as we make it.
Won't get done by looking at it!
Don't worry and don't hurry and your days will be long.
Live as nature requires of you.
If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes ...
Boy you watch your tongue with me. Or I'll stick my foot so far up your ass the next time you go to the doctor ...
A button clicked beneath his finger and the noise stopped, leaving only the blinking red light. I was daydreaming, he thought, not willing to admit ...
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.
If you believe the Bible is true, you ought to know that demons are real. The Bible is filled with references of evil and demons, ...
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Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
How little commoners understood, Eshram thought, shaking his head. Most witches were good people, harmless. They only wanted to be one with nature, and were ...
Are all terrorists muslims ?it's not even close
Don't just tell me your brother is funny-show me what he says and does and let me decide whether I want to laugh.
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
O]ne has to fight for justice for all. If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree ...
Siddhartha Gautama said that "life has dissatisfaction" (dukkha). He didn't say that "life is suffering and nothing but suffering" - only that we all suffer ...
Friends aren't people you can whip up like a batch of cookies. Dana and I were friends since kindergarten. Good friends take time.
I never want to see umbrellas around me," he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the ...
He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well.
When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to ...
The inner, subtle essences can be contemplated only by sucking, not by knowing. [p. xxix]
We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
Even when things don't go very well, even when life is hard, it still tends to be a pretty wonderful thing to be alive.
The great Sage follows his own nature and not that of society, following the fruit not the flower, he stays with the truth while rejecting ...
Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to ...
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special ...
I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as ...
Lovely things surround us every day, waiting to be picked up and noticed. Waiting to be turned in your hands, heart, and mind. Notice them. ...
Being a hero of my own life -- is that too much to ask?
SIR model, representing a flow of individuals, during the course of an outbreak, through those three classes I mentioned earlier: from susceptible (S) to infected ...
Then the room was spinning and I was hugging people, and crying - all at the same time, in a blur of warm orange lights ...
There's still room for flair and artistry and playing a game that's going to confuse people. Federer has proven that, time and time and time ...
Oh cozy horror." ~Clara
I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable ...
Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.
An America we can be proud of, rather than an America to be embarrassed of. You know it's a sign, when you see American backpackers ...
I owe my career to J.J. Abrams. He fought for me.
We're just physically not physical enough.
People always need hope." "Not always. Too much hope makes for a life full of loose ends. It's not nice to wake up every morning ...
So, don't feel deprived. You are not giving up anything. You are simply stopping a dangerous and harmful addiction. It really is that simple to ...
I was always the leading man's best friend's best friend.
The best organizations and the ones that survive economic tsunamis are those with emphatic cultures and managers who are able to step outside themselves and ...
It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.
To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.
Many a brave smiling face hides a sad heart
...the guy might be a cold-blooded amoral sadistic killer and a cartload of tiles short of a watertight roof, but there was nothing wrong with ...
I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will ...