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Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.
Africa will become an out-of-reach commodity instead of the expendable refuse heap we've treated her as.
Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.
The gift of God being wielded by the mind of flesh is such an ugly thing.
I have to remember that understanding sometimes comes in degrees, like growth. Like age.
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is the most important time in your life.
You can succeed in the future only by facing today's challenges head-on, reframing them as opportunities, and taking advantage of them.
I don't bring anything expensive to the dorms.
My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to have the DNA code ...
I don't even like horror movies. The world has enough real monsters without creating fictional monsters.
I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.
I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and ...
There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.
Life is like swordplay. Grip it, hold it tightly, then make your move.
Dreams are great magicians.
We all have a dual nature,some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for ...
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may ...
Who we are is permanently affixed to God.
We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud ...
When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.
Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. ...
I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
Beginning a new year - have a resolution to make - not to be a damn fool!' -- Kay Francis
Some people drift through life...Not me.I prefer to drive.Blazing through hell at a hundred miles an hour
In this world, there's even room for quality.
Aunt Hilda,' Violet
Remember when I told you I knew about you? You interrupted me. I wasn't going to say I sympathized with you; I was going to ...
America needs a Commander in Chief, not a Global Community Organizer.
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different ...
There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of her, she wanted to think ...
At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.
I prefer little hotpant-like shorts, but I wear thongs too.
Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your ...
No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventuresbut I know not how it is, but I am ...
I had no expectation. I had no expectation of goin' anywhere in my life. I had no expectation of ever amounting to anythin'. I didn't ...
A hat is an expression of a woman's soul. It is something that she wears on her head, but it belongs to her heart. It ...
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and ...
In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.
Every myth has a modicum of truth
Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing.
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek ...
No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning ...
But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it's ...
- Choose a wish , Find a dream , Pick a wishing star , Let you hopes and freedoms sore high and free and far ...
She wasn't going to succeed in newspapers if she didn't ask the big questions when she could.
It's at your most lunatic moments that I can resist you least.