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We scatter small parts of ourselves as we journey through life, pieces that are stored by others and about which we may have no memory.
I suspect I do not like kisses in general--perhaps my blood is stirred by poetry alone--but I have no grounds for comparison.
Today, approximately 9 of 10 beers consumed around the globe are lagers.
I'm a real girly-girl.
When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance ...
We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. ...
Q: Why do you blog?A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I ...
The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and mysticism. Yet
It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia."Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked me the first time."Otto ...
Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of ...
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters ...
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the ...
With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was ...
You have to innovate when times are good'.
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can ...
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God ...
I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio ... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he ...
Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution
There is no need for intelligence of few man if everybody else is mad.
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Shunning the bureaucratic levers of the past and finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves.'1 Whatever
We haven't seen any African country talk about recession.
I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, ...
Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face,
I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [ ... ]
Modules of brain networks define communities of structurally and functionally related areas, but they do not represent or support discrete mental faculties.
The man who holds the space is willing to risk relationships for the truth, because he knows without truth there is no true relationship. He ...
Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.
We all have to fight our own demons some are smaller than others, but they're still demons just the same.
When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one ...
My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it ...
Don't waste your time to make new dreams. but waste it to make one of your lifetime dream, come true.
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only ...
The eternity of "anytime" shines in this moment "now" while the unlimitedness of "anyplace" is manifested in the limits of "here." When the universality of ...
When the morning comes, let it go, this too shall pass.
I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to ...
Death is the only real thing from life.
The greatest pleasure he knew was to do a good action by stealth
Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will ...
Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such ...
Imagine living a completely different life where you remain calm, cool, and collected
He plucked out his eye and threw it into the well, then drank from its waters. He
Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.