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There was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness ...
The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.
Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not ...
This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.
Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.
He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he ...
The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the ...
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite ...
...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
If a bright light shines it's brightest among other bright lights, will we know how bright it really is?
I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.
Think like a fundamentalist, code like a hacker.
Hope my country will never become an uncomfortable place for the unbeliever, as it could easily become if prayer was made one of the requirements ...
All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other ...
Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
Never let school get in the way of your education. Mark Twain
I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks ...
To frighten others was simple. To control oneself and act calmly was a
Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results
See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the ...
I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." ...
Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.
Your face makes a leper's backside look handsome.
Leader of the Baden liberals, Carl von Rotteck, had cried "I prefer freedom without unity to unity without freedom.
It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - ...
Schumpeter may well have seen singles as rational. but in a survey of Americans conducted in 1957, more than half the respondents said that unmarried ...
Brenda cared for our bacteria with a love and affection that some people don't show their flesh-and-blood children. She would sneak in between classes to ...
These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone.
On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but ...
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for ...
Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.
Often marketing is still too much about people who want to sell. No! That is called sales. Marketing is about people who want to buy.
Life is a game and every player is cheating.
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.
Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of ...
Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that ...
If 'Titanic' was one of our telenovelas, we would probably have added a pair of dolphins to save Jack at the end. We don't kill ...
An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.
Good historical fiction can bring those sights, smells, and even the oppressive heat so alive, you feel that you are there,
My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. ...
Today, I made a log of farts.
In war, God is always on your side, no matter which side you're on. God is invincible, but one side always loses. Nobody seems to ...
It is easy enough to fall into the trap of doing the same thing time and time again. The big problem is of course that ...
That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.
Destiny knows no compromise, only consequences.
It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe ...
Letters always frustrate me with what's left out.