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It was the time of year that makes every poet's heart sing and every lawyer question their life choices.
I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to ...
With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album you can totally hear they're trying to write a ...
Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect ...
All compassion is lost when healthcare trades beneficence for business.
I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty ...
Now there is an aura of regret in the eyes of the bird through the stiffened point of pain it stares at dawn who will ...
If books are tagged as #MustRead, should cookbooks be tagged #MustCook?
The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A dark lord has no friends.
Learn to think BIG but start small. All the big projects eventually started with a single step.
Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in against him. He ...
Opening arguments,
The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.
Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.
Some issues are not meant to be Secret, Keep Talking
Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.
To make another human being feel like a fool is a terrible sin," he once told Heiner. "It is soul murder.
Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is ...
Go where your nose leads you
Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.
Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're ...
Its aircon was functional rather than luxurious,
Steffania shook her head in mock sorrow. "I've heard it said people never grow up. They merely learn how to behave in front of others." ...
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great ...
I'm going to die. And as if that weren't bad enough, I'm going to die inside a cake.
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.
Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by way of a variety of social learning processes.
Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones who ...
My sadness brings me tears of joy.
Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.
Torrance emphasized that "the gospel of unconditional grace is very difficult for us, for it is so costly. It takes away from under our feet ...
Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave ...
Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of ...
The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. ...
I play blues old-timey style.
Just because you have to eat shit doesn't mean you have to become shit.
I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read ...
Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with ...
I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.
Not everything green is gold. Not every finished puzzle is complete. And for every misplaced jigsaw, there is a puzzle out there still holding your ...
You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.
Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the ...
Teach the mouth to say what you have in your heart.
Too often, preachers encourage us to worship Jesus, but Jesus simply invites us to follow him - his way of life, his way of experiencing ...
If you want your place in the sun you've got put up with a few blisters.
Errors in code are what programmers call bugs, though when our programs go wrong, we prefer to call them "unexpected additional features." Very
There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing ...
Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.