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I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don't vibrate on the same frequency there's just no ...
I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.
Big data is the most disruptive force this industry has seen since the introduction of the relational database.
I invite you to join me in the pursuit of success. Let's not stop until we run as far and fast and as long as ...
This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.
The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people ...
I'm convinced, though I'm no expert in biology, if you cut a dog's brain open it would just be a perfect little human brain, with ...
My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the ...
I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say," I said into his green eyes, "it comes with ...
It's one thing to wave at the Devil from afar, quite another to shake the bastard's hand.
King Offa's dyke,
I've had quite enough danger for a while I think. I might have some more when I'm thirteen, but definitely not before then ...
Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
Health and happiness improvements can be made by making tiny little adjustments over time. They don't need to be massive big shifts especially if they ...
The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or ...
Story over style any day.
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not ...
Anger is just an emotion, don't let it rule you
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.
For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to ...
Sometimes it's possible to do everything right and still fail.
It was really the most important part of my life
The body is only a puppet to the mind
One finger for each lie.
In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore ...
Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or met all my ...
What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have not begun to ...
Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us.
It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending ...
In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event ...
I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion ... this winter I intend to do something in the ...
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are ...
Wife and children; I've met some
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
Brian organised for the body to be flown back.
There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.
You don't lose a partner you've been with for 30-odd years and just wake up one day with a smile.
Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.
You can't make every wrong decision right but you can stop deciding to take another wrong action.
There are two apparently opposing forces that govern our lives. No, not good and evil. Love and fear.That's right: the opposite of love is not ...
Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the ...
In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal ...
Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don't give a damn.
Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of ...
The only reason for being a writer, is that you can't help it.Josh Billings
Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it ...
Protestant congregations. These surveys found that, out of about one thousand churches who had been asked about sexual abuse since 1993, allegations of child abuse ...