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Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore ...
Yuki broke my heart, so can't I break his knee or something?
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, Thank you.
The closest thing Nick had seen to a high-powered lawyer in Melnik was eighty-five-year-old George Wesley, who handed out legal advice from his wheelchair in ...
But that doesn't take into consideration the other person's experience of being ignored.
William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?
Because we looked away in the past, does that mean we can look away now?Page 76
Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and ...
Look into the mouth of a person and you will find lies, wiggling there like maggots waiting to grow wings.
Big cities can have big hearts.
The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us the ...
No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.
If you aren't going to say something directly to someone's face, than don't use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense ...
The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.
Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough.
Time was a river, not a log to be sawed into lengths.
Raven sighed and looked up the tree. "Maybe it's asleep," he murmured.Myche grinned. "Want me to take a look?"Raven blinked. "What?"His friend gave a mock-suffering ...
But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I don't mean in the world- just ...
I write-down to speak-up.
A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.
Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks.
My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming ...
Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize ...
A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree ...
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your ...
How efficient and successful supply chains are is determined by how well they are managed.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than ...
Wherever wine grapes are grown, it is beautiful.
The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a tongue to tell that must remain unspoken.
Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It's ...
My career could have been prolonged for longer
Each and every being has an innate ability to heal as a gift from the gods.
That they were made with clear glass. Fake
Books burn too easily, and they don't keep you warm.
Loneliness of heartIn the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness ...
Honor is always: Not just when you feel like it.
And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to ...
If the conditions and or circumstances are right anybody will turn against anyone ...
Love of Fenway itself may be as much a part of the Sox' 2.6 million annual attendance as Pedro (Martinez), Manny (Ramirez) and Nomar (Garciaparra)
Words don't kill; humans do.
The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.
I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the ...
Life is not steady, you'll be happy at times, sad at time's, all we have to do is be patient, for a moment of happiness ...
In times of conflict, we're all peers.
It's all right, dearheart," Dad assures me. "Folder three, scenario four: going into labor during a high-speed chase with extra-terrestrials.
In 1951, Aerojet provided an employee cafeteria that featured roast prime rib of beef (seventy-five cents) on Thursdays, New York steaks (eighty-five cents) on Wednesdays ...
He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, ...
Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.
Everybody and their mother knows you don't train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday ...
We know very well what there is under other people's tails, but we cannot live without sniffing.