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The twentieth-century scholar G. B. Harrison, believing the woman to have been black-skinned, proposed a prostitute named Lucy Morgan;
In time of peace prepare for war.
In order to run, an engine must have spark, fuel, and at least 60 psi of compression. One or more of these prerequisites is lacking ...
I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have ...
Reach for the sky but keep your feet on the ground
The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some ...
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: ...
I understand, gentlemen," John Kennedy said. "If you find that life it's not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.
So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources ...
Anyone who looks for happiness from external events is destined to be unhappy much of the time.
Searching for fish, cook them, eat them. They're gone. Yet, writing is never gone although the writer died.
The afternoon light cast long shadows across the ground,
There are moments in life where you don't get a do-over, where the true nature of your character is revealed. You either step up to ...
Politicians ... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this ...
They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.
Fang shreds alot.
I have always liked what the Scarecrow said to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz."Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't ...
The bird flying free has no interest in the truth, searching, or looking for a deeper meaning. The bird flying free just "is" and that ...
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm ...
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time ...
Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of ...
Shed in the backyard and a small garden
Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was ...
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have ...
Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex, realised they got ...
The ancient liturgy, with its poignant symbols and innumerable subtleties, is a prolonged courtship of the soul, enticing and drawing it onwards, leading it along ...
It did not have the makings of a cozy situation for anyone but Mordred, who seems to relish being hated for the love of being ...
Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.
Another ethical ideal, the utilitarian principle, maintains that the ultimate criterion of an ethical decision is the balance of positive consequences over negative consequences produced ...
Is that my foot?Silly me, it's a starfish
Want to get paid for watching daytime soaps? become a therapist!
I'm a pretty organised traveller.
There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
Note that I avoid most "modern features" of C++, but inheritance and operator overloading are too useful for ray tracers to pass on.
Giv Herren sin Aere, giv Kongen sin Told.
Scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,
See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays ...
The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all. PSALM 34:19 NIV
For a start, people who traveled for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work cannot accurately be portrayed as lazy ...
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in ...
During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: ...
Chocolate Melting
If you remain silent, the shame is yours. If you speak out the shame is his. Shout out as loud as you can
But grace has no leash. It's untamed, unbound, and runs wild and free.
It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure ...
A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning.