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There is no creature more singular or dangerous than the educated woman.
People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately. Some of them ...
Each closing makes room for the birth of a new seadon
You'll never know what you can achieve until you try. Just never, ever give up.
Love is...when you fall for the person inside the person...and keep falling
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.
Beneath the privatization of worship is the ever-present individualism of our culture.
You have a responsibility to teach your boss. You make your boss successful, you become successful. Your boss fails, you fail. If the person is ...
We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it.
Sadly, we've all seen those who have had extensive plastic surgery as they try to run from aging, and the reality is that they often ...
His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such ...
There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.
What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.
Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.
The family crest of none other than Professor James Moriarty." The very name filled me with fear, and my trousers with something that was certainly ...
You've been in Hollywood long enough to know that all the real acting happens offscreen.
The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes - picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and ...
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of ...
Whatever you need me to be, I'll be! Friends? Fine! Best friends? Great! I'll do it, because I want you in my life more than ...
The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program,
Because the things you do for blood - for family - well, I think they cause most of us more problems than can be fairly ...
Simulacrum, but a policewoman in disguise.
Well aren't you a prick." If a prick turns down a girl that's been pounded more times than a basketball court, then by all means, ...
Calling colleagues "customers" puts a wedge between IT and the rest of the business.
Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one
Faith, as James speaks about it, is not a system of belief, but a way of life that consciously draws its sustenance from God and ...
Hop on the good foot and do the bad thing.
It took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage ... if you deal ...
Absolute power, it was terrifying.
Near the end of the story, at the police station, Murin diagnoses Ordynov's illness as the sad result of "too much book learning,
It's a mistake to possess comfortable things," he said now. "Soft couches, big beds, large bath tubs, the like. Because if nothing is comfortable you ...
I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this ...
The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.
All I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for ...
It is true that there is nothing too great for God's power; and it is just as true that there is nothing too small for ...
What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the rational.
Oh, fuck it. My feet never could be laced into goody two-shoes.
Luck is just a step away from fate.
Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art.
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times ...
The difference between perfection and excellence is one can actually be achieved.
Sometimes the real action in a conversation takes place in the pauses, when nothing at all is being said.
I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with ...
Where's the victory without opposition?--Joel
Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn their lives around ...
Our brief history of evaluation research begins at the end with an instant observation on the here and now. A
I'm a grandfather now.