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Ascribing personal responsibility to the obese individual is not a rational argument for an eminently practical reason: it fails to advance any efforts to change ...
I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon.""Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. ...
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a ...
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
It's more mental in the NFL than it was in high school. In high school you just line up and close the gap. In the ...
Don't make the error of believing the papers know everything, and strive to know everything the papers won't believe.
He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors ...
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way ...
I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or ...
Dudes in suits and politicians didn't make sense to my 18-year-old brain. All I wanted to do was be awesome.
To inhale is to inspire, to exhale is to create.
Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ...
Each age has different tensions and terrors, but they open on the same abyss.
I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
The best thing you can do with your ideas is to always be ready to abandon them.
The families I continue to hurt and leave broken break me, and the ghostly remains that linger through the aftermath of their shattered futures reflect ...
The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is ...
I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.
If you're going to do something, I believe, you should do it well. You should sweat over it and make sure it's strong and accurate ...
God watches over every temptation and trial that you will ever face in your life and He will never "allow you to be tempted beyond ...
No feelings, just sex, and when it ends we walk away,
Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can't get that right, don't call it Scrum, OK?
I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a gunslinger walking away ...
Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?
An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.
A few metres ahead, a young soldier with a belly wound was pleading in Russian. Peter couldn't understand any of it - except of course ...
A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.
I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection ...
Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6% ... No one..really knows the extent of ...
If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
If you give up on what you want so will your dream.
I want nothing more in this life than to make you mine and to be yours in return. I know it may take you a ...
Love is dangerous and often violent in the sense that it can radically alter us at a moment's notice.
If you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects ...
Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional
We must be right 100% of the time, but the terrorists only have be right once". At
How do you know that I'm out of control? Maybe I'm just awkward.
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of ...
There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.
Nothing is impossible. Everything is possible. It's all in the attitude.
May your brightest star shine, though the darkest of storms, to the end of all things.
They say words are windows to the soul. To me words show what is not always said. When I write, I give a little peice ...
A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to ...
WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, the journey is the reward.