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When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the ...
The more you have seen, the larger your cognitive map, the more you can imagine.
Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.
The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's ...
Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one ...
She thinks I'm strong because I can push everything into the dark. But it leaves me empty. And the dark always finds me in my ...
Strange is the night where black stars rise,and strange moons circle through the skies,but stranger still islost Carcosa.
Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In ...
An open mind is not an empty one.
It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If
There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.
You told me that it would be better to find family among people who were good than to try and find good among my family.
I was the little sister he'd never had - and secretly, I'd always wanted to be so much more.
I wouldn't miss this fake-homo show for all the Gucci Shoes on Rodeo Drive.
I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other ...
I'd been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind.
Is the man who trusts in man And makes hflesh his 2strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. 6For he shall be ilike a shrub ...
I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into ...
Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups ...
What matters is that we survive.
You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be ...
As postmillennialists, we believe we should see the kingdom of God advancing in this world spiritually and externally, and that we should continue to see ...
The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution.
Our lives are like water, always flowing forward in the streams of time. When we encounter what is unexpected, our best choice is to flow ...
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
The Truth about America's Silicon Valley-Angels in the SiliconRiveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.-John Yoo, UC Berkeley ...
Pain will no longer be our curse, Molly
Trusting others is all good and well, but distrusting them is better. People are rotten so always expect the worst in them. This way, when ...
The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.
Why did some people hear the voice, loud and clear, while others just floated from thing to thing, from person to person, never completely fitting ...
Knowledge is a process, not a product ...
I'm human. I'm going to miss shots, ... When I miss four (in a row), I've got to feel I can make the fifth one.
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. ...
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy on ...
It was the only act of rebellion I knew - to be worthy of such an insult as "butterfly.
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Yeah, it does. I don't know why, but it's sexy as hell." The
Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely.
Remembrance is the secret of reconciliation.
God never uses duct tape to fix things - He will take your flesh and blood if you offer it to Him and use it ...
Of all the people I've ever met; you're one of them!
We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't ...
When you're problem solving with a team and somebody has an idea separate the idea from the person talking, because once in a while a ...
...our expectations are the result of our beliefs about how likely something will happen combined with how much we value what we hope will happen.
Life is not a transcript. This isn't a test you can ace or fail. You can get Cs and Ds and still be okay.
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in ...