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Where oil is first found is in the minds of men
In the confusion of your first close encounter, you forget the lyrics to "Voodoo Child.
As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, ...
Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity ... We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place ...
The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.
I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd ...
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the ...
If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for ...
With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of ...
Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong.
Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
It is a longstanding South-ern tradition to call someone a "storyteller" as a politeway of calling him a liar.
Careless words stab like a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing. Proverbs 12:18 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, ...
However, creativity is not so much about efficiency, but rather about inefficiency.
Physical size can not measure the ferocity and compassion of the heart, spirit and soul. Truly in the measure of a person, short or tall ...
If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer ...
Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing ...
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. ...
As long as you can convey that a woman is special, more valuable to you than other women are, it is enough to get her ...
Washington is the only lunatic asylum in the world run by its own inmates.
In fact all country music - with its wailing hearts, tearful angst, and neatly trimmed facial hair - is a little too gay for its ...
...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.
Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world.
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an ...
For me, environment is all. Place is absolutely essential.
Second Changes Are not given to make things right, But to prove that we could be better even after we fail
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
One block at a time.
Chess is a natural cerebral high.
Live to Dream. Dream to Live.
The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
If you believe in yourself never doubt your abilities.
And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a ...
Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding ...
Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger - except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.
Of course it's kitsch, and of course our love for every cult figure gets called kitsch when we want to separate the suffering it requires ...
Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these ...
I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
Online games via Facebook such as FarmVille are for people with more time than sense on their hands
People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the ...
Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.
So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much ...
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the ...
Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to the supermarket to ...
A man has only three reasons for being anywhere: to right a wrong, to earn a coin, or because he got lost." "I
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.