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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
I would not live alway; I ask not to stayWhere storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.
Integrity, honesty, reverence toward God, avoidance of evil and consistent religious affection are graces that ought to characterize the servant of God. They are not ...
Another lesson for bookshop owners: "Learn how to listen yet let it pass through you." Thanks to some therapist friends, I have finally acquired that ...
All great art is a visual form of prayer.
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.
Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.
If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever,
They would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch ...
He was in her presence. Nothing else mattered. Except, of course, acting unaffected by her.
As Christians, we're going to have bad days, but they aren't typically a result of our lack of love for Jesus. The fact is we ...
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere.
The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by the ethics of ...
I can neither confirm nor deny details of any such operation without Secretary's approval
Waiting well looks forward to the future while staying present in the present. Waiting well means I remain open to God and allow Him to ...
The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.
When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have ...
As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what ...
Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, ...
We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there is an urgency ...
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to ...
No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.
With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.
There are very dark times when even basic human altruism must be an intentional act of rebellion.--I Am Fire and Air
My suggestion to young people is that not only should they read about the history of science and engineering, but that they should read about ...
The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.
Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice ...
I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.
Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid ...
You might be on the right track but if you don't move on, you'll get hit by a train.
My story testifies to the truth that we must never give up on people, no matter how many times they fail or how long recovery ...
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It appeared to me that there were already too many dreams festering on shelves with a promise return to them someday, and time was too ...
Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes ...
For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom ...
I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking ...
Stoicism, understood properly, is a cure for a disease. The disease in question is the anxiety, grief, fear, and various other negative emotions that plague ...
The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots ...
You are who you are, when NO ONE is LOOKING
When Christ is all you have, that's the time you realize that Christ is all you need.
By investing in anonymouscryptocurrencies, you are buying 'insurance' against a recession, as the value of the cryptocurrency could increase significantly if the economy falters and ...
If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.
The hard truth is often simply: learn to act like a normal person.