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I have a very simple question to people ... who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and ...
I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.
Well, anyway, this'll be easier than knocking an elf out of a tree. Trust me.''How many elves have you knocked out of trees, Stubble?''Duraden's bones! ...
Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.
The Pleroma is the totality. The superset. Magisteria are the subsets." Eat your heart out, Bertrand Russell. "We all have one. Even you. Your own ...
Love turns one person into two; and two into one.
Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is ...
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.
Increasing your speed means making your mind and body more alert, and therefore more likely to keep going strong for longer periods of time.
[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.
Be careful mi amor, don't hurt anyone this time." Cordia reminded Jade.
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a ...
The end is but a new beginning for the eternal Ba.
...the work of his favourite painter at the time, brett whitely, seemed to offer some focus for his rebellious attitude towards moribund suburban melbourne. cave ...
Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.
The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it ...
Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where ...
Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.
Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, ...
Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, ...
Mysticism - Magic and Yoga - is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, ...
If you can see a cop in your rear view mirror - no matter how far back the cop is - TURN! The sooner you ...
The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge.
I remember when you could get a good, virgin meal for half the price.
When our dreams don't come true, sometimes we can hand them down to our children and hope that they will come true for them. The ...
You'll never know what you're capable of if you never take the first step and try.
Learning is a journal not a destination
The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like ...
Honour always wins, it is inevitable.
Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ...
It is what it is, Holly. I've got to go.
You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just ...
The mere existence of sanctions is not sufficient to ensure compliance. If no attention is paid to supervision, there is a risk that sectors that ...
Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.
I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, ...
Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you ...
And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is ...
My dad had told me once that I was handsome and stupid, an irresistible combination to a woman.
No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest.
Stop sitting around, get off your ass and help me already!
If you don't have friends, find the enemy
I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another- this takes time. You need to be willing to let your friends know the real ...
Life's a bastard then you die. Then death seems determined to be a bigger bastard by setting demons loose on you.
In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose ...
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.
I can sometimes be a demanding person and Cristiano is really patient dealing with my personality. So I also try my hardest to offer him ...
All choices have consequences,' she said []. 'That doesn't mean we're not free to make them. It's one of the perplexities of the human condition
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the ...