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One wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and ...
What they meant was that we, the young squirts, will shit in our pants the first time we get fired upon. Nonsense!
If we don't have to suffer, why do we? Why don't we just know how to be okay?
Every time I left for the battlefield I promised this to myself; I must live to see you again. In order to protect you, I ...
We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that ...
Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.
Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth... Wisdom requires a surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of existence.
It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator ...
The water of the lagoon was warm as blood, salt as tears, and astonishingly clear
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and (most ...
ENGLISH: the ultimate body language. If not spoken by the English.
Private Perkins is a funny little codger.
This was not just any urn. It was a cremation urn, housing the powdered remains of Mrs. Pule's mother Wanda, a woman so mean and ...
I've dealt with a lot of bullshit because of the way I look and a lot of misconceptions about what people should be afraid of.
I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.
If your brain functioned like a digital video recorder, it could hold more than three million hours of TV shows, enough video storage for 300 ...
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men are able to manifest their ...
When we give up our goals and concentrate diligently on the practices of our lives, we increase self-mastery and move toward the invisible universe, toward ...
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claimthat only science can demonstrate ...
Engineers naturally tend to focus first on the product and then on its users. For an anthropologist, it's the exact reverse: people come first, then ...
I'm seriously laughing
If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it ...
Motivation doesn't come from empty words, because words fade over time. If persistance and perservance is what you live then what motivation do you need? ...
Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
Selfridges' Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.
The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to ...
Gotta keep an eye on those terrorist polar bears, and make sure Santa's elves aren't planning a holy war.
Litigation is a tool used by negotiators.
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for ...
I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.
Corner into the Vicolo del Fiori. He faced four tall men dressed as gladiators, shoulder to shoulder, and at once he knew that something was ...
Rereading the works of a favorite author and, once again, learning something new shows me they are not done with me yet.
Cybill Shepherd's mother - her name is Patty - is a good friend of mine.
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group ...
I speak a little bit of Russian.
Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having ...
Art has no rules. That's what makes it art.
Writing is easy, good writing is hard and excellent writing is hard work.
David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered ...
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Some people are just born to cook and talk.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
Great abilities are rare, and they are often accompanied by qualities which make the abilities useless to him who has them, and even injurious to ...
In life, everybody gets the same three chords. It's what you do with them that matters.
Government is not the solution, and it is not the problem. Government is the thing that collects taxes and paves roads and chooses to either ...