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No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul ...

Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.

Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world ...

It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Piper, stop," he said in that firm, bossy voice.I stopped.I don't get how those guys can ignore that tone."Turn around."I turned around."Fuck," he murmured.Why can't ...

The only thing they recognize is a buffet

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not ...

A lost men is not direction based but self-seeking outside God

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" - Albert ...

I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said."It wasn't a dream," she told him.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, ...

It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown.

I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no ...

Sell candidly.Sell courageously.Sell calculatingly.Sell contentiously.

In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a ...

Along the edge of this green lived a man. His name is not important, as no one ever used it. The villagers only ever called ...

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, ...

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him ...

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

Now create in your mind the best of days, and memorize these details, place this day center in your mind, and when you are the ...

I love a tree more than a man.

Goyen there. Sadly not for sale." "Van Goyen? I would have sworn that was a Corot." "From here, yes, you might." He was pleased at ...

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it ...

It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

Eternity for bubbles proves at last a senseless bargain.

To avoid detection, the Doctor had attached a device called Randomiser to his TARDIS, his plan being to outfox the Black Guardian by popping up ...

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were ...

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women ...

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

I bless every sunrise because it marks a new day by your side.

Like black, do you? (Cassandra)It serves its purpose. It's hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)

You'll never see us coming.

Is there anythingmore adult than sticking with a relationship that's falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?I've never done that in ...

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the ...

So what to do? ... She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals ...

Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

I hope you come to hear the tale, and not just munch your way through the pages to the ending ... endings are heartless. An ...

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I ...

I don't know whether you know this, but there are people in the world with a very odd gift, one that looks like crossed wires. ...

I want to grow old with you. I want your face to be the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing ...

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

Habit is an energy saver for us. It allows us to free our mind for other types of activities.

I used to read comics when I was a kid.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious ...

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. ...

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask ...

In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.

We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath ...

We do what we are and we are what we do ...

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because ...

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim ...

There was organisation at work, but clutter, too. The mark of a logical mind that sometimes strayed. Pepper

Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling ...

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

You're not my type.I've heard this before and I don't believe her. Hell, I'm everyone's type! Eventually.

To friendscorts. Like escorts, but without the cash.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, ...

So, Rule Number One, apparently, was that he wasn't allowed to crack a smile during foreplay. Got it

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the ...

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are ...

Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four,

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being ...

I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. ...

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this ...

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a ...

I had the constitution of a missionary.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is ...

I told him to stop being so bossy.He told me I sucked bossy dick and never complained unless I wasn't getting my way, so I ...

And may the gods keep us from a world where only the people who deserve love get it.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started ...

It is for truth that God created genius.

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to ...

Your rack looks fabulous in this dress. You should wear this one. He'll lose his shit when he sees you in it.""You always know the ...