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At first glance, northern hardwood and hemlock forests aren't very sexy - they are the accountants of the forest world, stable and consistent.
When you allow the immature to dictate the terms of relationships, you are giving them the green light to exploit, neglect, or abuse you.
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
What breath I had within simply left, as if it had other business to attend.
My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on ...
You mean fiction?" I said."I mean flesh-and-blood stories about what happens outside your head, Albert. Stories that touch your heart.
Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their ...
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the ...
You don't have to be rich to save the world.
If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don't even know the ...
He was reading. I was struck dumb with amazement.
On clear nights, when the stars were white on black instead of smoggy gray, we'd lie on the roof together and say cheesy things like, ...
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a ...
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Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.
The wise can coach and explain but only you can unshackle your mind.
All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.
He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.
Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only ...
Saying No Is Actually Saying Yes To Other Things
Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.
It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. The blood that was shed was bad blood; the ...
. . .they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of ...
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it ... Thus, it ...
You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.
The Eucharist is usually not considered an essential aspect of Christian worship by those concerned with church growth.
From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, ...
Lonestar beer in my cereal is keeping me alive
Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand.
Time is the passage of change. When electrons cease revolving around protons time does not exist. In the spirit world, there are no atoms and ...
I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.
Passion has determined our past. Attitude will determine our future.
No Finn, ya ding-dong!-Princess Bubblegum
'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is ...
Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts
Rudeness is limiting. Sometimes a false hospitality can be even more dangerous, as any reader of fairy tales must know.
Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new!
Because a heart that hurts, is a heart that works.
If poles were so important we'd call it Poling instead of Skiing
When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.
The butterfly is a flying flower,The flower a tethered butterfly.
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught ...
Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious not of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.
We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove ...
With such disappointing lunkheads for parents, naturally Petunia must leave home.
The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.
I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
I would rather have cookies in my jacket pockets than a chain around my dog's neck.
I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The ...