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We are all disabled, broken parts, lost individuals, trying to find our way. Truth is what you know, here and happening now. There is only ...
We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, ...
Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of ...
Others may dislike you becauseyou are different but somebody loves you because you are different
Remembering the sound of metal clanging against wet tar sent chills up my spine. Car crashes always seemed like they couldn't happen to normal people, ...
Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that ...
As Duke Ellington put it, Henderson "was liberal in giving away his ideas to people. So liberal, in fact, that it is difficult to recognize ...
A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they ...
Nutrition is not a private matter!
There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I ...
After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best ...
Practise your confidence tricks on the street and you risk getting shot by trigger-happy security guards; do it in the office and you get put ...
But at its most official heart, the U.S. Dollar is simply the "I.O.U. a Dollar's worth of Tax credit" promise of our sovereign Federal Government.
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try ...
I may not be strong, but I am fierce
Bigot: Someone who hates different people than I do.
You are who you see yourself as.
Rembrandt was an innovator not only in painting but also in commerce. He helped establish a full-fledged art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. "Rembrandt's obsession with ...
There are so many people who will try and make you feel like your opinion doesn't matter, and I've learned how important it is to ...
It has been my experience that the only person who enjoys a meeting is the person who calls it so they can look important and ...
These are dead people for Christ sake.
The best approach is to write a narrative, "slice of life" essay where you focus on a smaller incident, event or moment, and then expand ...
Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress.
The best thing about a book is that you don't have to plug it in.
That was a stretch of the truth, but things sometimes needed to stretch if they were going to grow.
The science of the earth ... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the ...
I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
Whether focused on ancestry, visible race, or combinations of the two, systems of ranked difference aimed to separate people into hierarchies of inequality while incorporating ...
I don't assume anything about people, and I sure don't trust 'em. Just when you think you know a guy, he turns out to be ...
I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the ...
I'm not much of a reader, but I feel like I've absorbed a lot of the stuff that comes through here. You know, you sit ...
History is what people want to remember.
If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a ...
My goal is to be an inspiration to others!
Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own ...
I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where ...
The spirits of the dead are all around us, but it is we, the living, that are the true hungry ghosts.
American Health Insurance Companies have classified pregnancy as an illness, so if pregnancy is an illness was the baby-boom a plague?
But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your ...
You meet not so much to sing as to pray, or, better yet, to pray in and through your song. Gregorian chant is for you ...
In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when ...
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is ...
We all have the power of light inside us, it's just that sometimes the darkness is stronger. Fear is like darkness, too. It can consume ...
The walls inside were charred from some ancient fire, blackened and lichened and weathered hard, smelling faintly of a smoke so old there may be ...
Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, ...
A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general system ...
There sure are a lot of smells floating around the ol' factory.
In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is to know exactly ...
I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.
If the world didn't suck we would all fall off.