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I didn't study music. I literally lived it,
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years ...
Rapid reading is not a difficult skill to learn.
We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate ...
I had already passed beyond the point of death and was now keeping company with ghosts who had joyfully come to claim me as one ...
It's not even rejection, it's dismissal.
... CEOs are the ghost writers of the political discourse ...
When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.
When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not ...
You've gotta want it, to win.
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of ...
If we can understand each other, then is anything really beyond our reach?
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage ... What is at the ...
The Expositor's Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1976. Bruce, F. F. The Epistle to the Galatians. Grand ...
We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms ...
By the same token, you aren't information; you are that which is in formation - the indefinable essence that manifests as thoughts, feelings, and sensations. ...
Problem Identification and General Needs and Targeted Needs Assessments. The problem identification and general needs assessment for a curriculum
Gather the roses of life today.
Technology is often portrayed as an objective measure of development, and its advancement as something that can be examined outside of politics. But the history ...
The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves.
I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count ... Provided I like it!
As the suns rise, the goat chews. A
...a person can't tame God. He's wild as a lion. He'll haunt you.
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many ...
Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun.
If love is truth then give me love, or else give me truth.
Mind is the only reason for human bondage and relief. Whenever mind is free from all physical attachment it is relieved and finds its way ...
We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions ...
All religions are about men in frocks waving sticks around.
I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.
If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly ...
A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words - A Book Paints a Thousand Pictures.
Truth has a very unfortunate tendency (for the conspirators) to ultimately come out in the open.
She picked me up, dusted me off, and kicked my ass. Maybe we all need that from time to time. If we're lucky, there's someone ...
Hit the Dead for they won't listen, Hit the Dead for they don't know,Hit the Dead they're all imprisoned,Hit the Dead before they go...
As for the world, all reality has no other excuse for existence except to offer the poet the chance to play a sublime match against ...
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching ...
Showing the skills more of a high-school debater than a barrister, Brandis blustered in the Senate that 'people do have a right to be bigots'.
Using figure B, we can stipulate that an existential risk is equivalent to (i) all red-dot catastrophes, and (ii) any black-dot catastrophe that significantly compromises ...
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure." (Sirach 6:14)
Informed that an opportunity would be given her to see her daughter before the latter was transferred to Mt Eden, she had done nothing.
Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected
You'll never know the true meaning of winning until you've lost" - Pierre S. Hughes
Recognition of the political-economic forces that impose patterns of suffering is the foundation for an applied critique of policy and services that persecute oppositional, marginalized ...
Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never ...
Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; ...