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We are most asleep when awake.
Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests ...
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, ...
The economics favour one-man comedy shows: all you need is one person, a microphone and a PA system. But I'm pleased so many people are ...
My parents said that sitting at home playing video games all day won't bring you anywhere in life.
I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I ...
Over my shoulder I whispered, "Thanks-a-bunch is recovery-speak for This'll be worth the hassle if I don't have to trim my toenails anymore." "Ah.
Repentance is the process of discovering what God says is the truth and aligning your faith with His.
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's ...
The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.
I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.
Oulipo ends where the work begins.
How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.
Magnificent canyon of fashion.
Dogs see the bigger picture - everything as a whole, not broken pieces of glass that need fixing. - Madison
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
We cannot understand the relationship between poverty and education without understanding the biases and inequities experienced by people in poverty.
The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man ...
Changes made by management today make no improvement.
We enter the dressing room where mirrors are waiting to laugh at me.
In fact, I'd go one better, and venture that there's nothing more important than friendship: if it should then take you to the ends of ...
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.
Men may find God in nature, but when they look at cities they are viewing themselves. And what Americans see mirrored in their cities these ...
A man truly falls in love with a woman from a distance, as an observer, as a spectator taking in her true essence when she ...
I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's ...
Passion is kind of an important word for me, whether it's playing sports or whether it's just living or whatever you're going to do. In ...
Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.
If he wins, we'll feel its God's will. If he loses, we'll feel its God's will. I'm praying he'll win. Mostly, I'm just glad all ...
The Left Behind series by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye presents a detailed and adrenaline-laced roadmap for the authors' beliefs about Biblical end-times prophecy.
Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!
What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and ...
Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong ...
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of ...
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself ... the thing has to look true, and that is all. ...
Social cohesion is more efficient than coercion.
There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of ...
If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.
If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.
We need to always tell them how special they are and that they mean the world to us.
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
Well, the truth is, we hope that this book will do just that. I like to think of it as idiot encouragement. Take a chance ...
It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.
Learning should never stop for all age groups. We can empower millions to realize the opportunity to help shape a new society of creative 'mentorologists' ...
He was young and tall, his hair was the color of fresh corn, his fingers were as thick as cigars, and he had his clarinet ...
You never know when someone will enter your life and broaden your horizons forever!
There's Nazis and espionage. Everything can be explained by Nazis and espionage.
I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, ...
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.