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The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, ...
If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?
Your opinion of me is none of my business.
Well, if you were perfect, then you wouldn't be real. Maybe those things about you that you think I hate are actually the ones I ...
They are attracted to something or someone, and they make these initial "decisions" about being attracted based on emotion, not logic. In ...
Everybody knew that Theodore Dinkins was dead. But Theodore Dinkins sat on the graveyard fence and said that he was not; and grew angry if ...
Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that ever were borned.
But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.
Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who ...
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we obtain a set of numbers we call integers. That
Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.
Recent sociological findings indicate that while "whites have largely abandoned principled racism... they have not necessarily given up negative racial stereotypes" or "negative sentiments and ...
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.
Sometimes, the choices we make have devastating consequences
Success for me is simply empowerment to realize your humanity and then perhaps you achieve contentment. Wealth, power and fame are trappings rather than indicators ...
Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.
Your "imperfection" might be another's fetish.
I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.
Most looked as if they were at a bus stop, bored and ready to move on.
I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to ...
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
Maybe love is something we're meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.
History is never something carved in stone, but more like something saved to a temporary cache file on a computer disk vulnerable to the imperfections ...
Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....
I didn't want to be someone pretending to be a woman; I wanted to know what it was like to be a sexual woman... I ...
I don't really watch movies at all. I don't even think I could name one. Maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I think I've seen that, but ...
What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by ...
Live your life as if it was written by Aaron Sorkin
Opportunities present themselves only to the patient, man and beast, and only they take advantage of those opportunities.
Sometimes I'll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I'll flip the book over to look at the cover to ...
If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that's OK. You as a state can do that; you have a right to do it. ...
In this way, the Hearsts became the symbol of the overly lenient parents of the era and a counterpoint to the Republican administration's voice of ...
When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8) divided into 4 ...
Some people would rather suffer the consequences of procrastination than the humiliation of trying and not doing as well as they had hoped.
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some ...
Strong families make strong churches.
One thing I never forgot from my reading--in most cases, misunderstandings were a result of not talking about things. So, early on, I decided the ...
Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps us know what ...
Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.
Gratitude is a powerful lens which, if we gaze through thoughtfully, we can come to a place where we are better able to understand ourselves.
There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. ...
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at ...
Death. I've taunted it for years with confidence and courage. It has taken years for me to realize that it wasn't courage at all, it ...
There's potential for it being soon. The reality is that there are only 'X' positions available, so it's a matter of luck or timing. They ...
The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?
Art will not disappear into nothingness; it will disappear into everything