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Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.
The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what ...
Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of falsifying ...
Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting ...
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or ...
Join the locals as they bounce from place to place, never knowing what fun lies ahead but certain of the possibility. Add in local bounty ...
I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.
The Baltic states (Poland, Belarus, and the Ukraine),
People cannot always predict the outcomes of maintaining or terminating a particular relationship. How can you make a decision without knowing the likely costs or ...
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ...
Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet.(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)
Being lonely because of Allah is another kind of a beauty
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an ...
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
It's all experience; not anything original
Caroline, beside herself, dragged me down to her, her breast was against mine, and by a circular movement seemed to caress it. The pretty strawberries ...
Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane ...
Magic is a door to which we have lost the key. But the door is there.
Opened the door with a smile. The man bowed slightly, then stepped quickly over the threshold and grabbed the door from her hand to close ...
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
I have to try hard - but I do succeed - to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked ...
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
For a week, you carried my short story all folded up in your jeans pocket, said you felt sorry for the main character in it. ...
Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should be known for the beauty that ...
The greatest wounds, we hide inside ourselves where they never show.
Hatred brings bondage. Forgiveness liberates.
That amazing row of ab-mountains between hips so narrow even my sweet old Nana would imagine wrapping her legs around them.
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
As professionals , the odds were in our favor, or so we believed.
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into ...
There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, ...
In those days the typical Hollywood mother ran around looking like Eleanor Roosevelt, wearing a hat with a feather in it to attract attention. I ...
Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
There is always a choice, Mister Walker. Even if it is not necessarily the one we wish to have. You can choose to forget all ...
The commandments of God were intended to make Israel a distinct, and holy nation of priests to the one, true, living God so that the ...
Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more ...
For many young girls, [Barbie is] their first association with fashion and dressing up and changing clothes.
If you get to the end of your life and you have regrets that you could have done better, then you blew it.
The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible, and more real ...
Action speaks louder, words cut to the bone
There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union.
I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
Because I need it," I screamed. "I tried. I tried to stop once I got my license and be normal. But.. I needed it. My ...