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There are circumstances that trump personal feelings.
When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.
Engineers are funny animals. If you tell an engineer about a problem, any problem, his first instinct is to measure it. Tell an engineer you ...
I didn't set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important ...
It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues ...
Compassion Is The Key
Sunday is always one of those days when you don't feel bad that it has arrived.
He leaned forward and bit her bottom lip. It was just the right size. He hated women with thin, judgmental lips. Smeared with dark red ...
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost ...
Remember, you're reading for pleasure. If you pick up a book and don't like it, put it down. Never read what you think you should ...
Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself ...
I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It's a compliment ...
That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result ...
There was only one thing to do, and he did it. Ignoring Bomazine's leering face, Ike reached down and took up a notch in his ...
The key channel through which early adversity causes damage to developing bodies and brains is stress.
I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.
There's just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what ...
Knock Knock I am opening the door to new opportunities
(If the expected does not occur - in event, reward, or punishment - the work may seem lacking in artistic unity, coherence, and integrity and ...
It's not like I can change any of it now. I can only use the experience to avoid such situations in the future.
The author of "Somewhere Upriver" sometimes shoves a lopsided word into an otherwise balanced sentence, thinking it's a kind of verbal jazz.
Market leaders continually chart the changing waters.
People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already ...
You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,your spiritual ...
Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and ...
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
Most people in the psychology field believe that if we do not get a child to bond at a deep level with someone by age ...
We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for ...
It is commonly said that the Internet is unique in its ability to spread bad information to large numbers of people, but this is ridiculous, ...
Has their faults, right? I wasn't perfect either. But when I was with
We are spiritual beings having a human experience. We don't choose the experience but we do choose how we react to the experience we have. ...
Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick ...
I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.
Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at ...
I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet. - Marshal Law
If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who ...
We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself
Gold is valuable as a currency or investment because we believe it is valuable (which is the same reason for valuing money itself). Gold's value ...
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate ...
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!If I should count them, they are more in ...
Edwin is prepared to believe that a glass exists. And further, that this glass holds liquid.
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life ...
Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack ...
If you get lost, you can always be found.
Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?
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