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Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead.
Wealth is not a sign of dignity, dear Jonah. Only those who put faith above wealth are worthy of this honour. Abandon wealth and devote ...
Every believer may not be called to preach, but every Christian is called to pray. Prayer is our duty. Prayer is our privilege. Prayer, like ...
All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good ...
Goodreads helps quite a few people that love to giveaway their books. I donate some of the books that I get from goodreads.
I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.
The year's fruit must fall that the next year's may come, and the winter is the only way to the spring.
Most of the social and political ills from which you suffer are under your control, given only the will and courage to change them. You ...
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.
I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.
He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and ...
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote ...
We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and ...
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him
I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.
I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I ...
I am "Empowering Women of Excellence from Northeast Ohio to the Ends of the Earth
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
How come abbreviated is such a long word?
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker ... Labor is the only source of wealth.
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property ...
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Prayer is a 24/7 unique dialogue between you and God('Pray without ceasing,' Thessalanians5:17NKJV).
Ain't real big on fear. I tried it once, and well ... didn't like the taste of it. Burped it up for days afterwards and ...
The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the ...
I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much.
And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.
Because of this inner busyness, which is going on almost all the time, we are liable either to miss a lot of the texture of ...
It's funny-my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you're doing it on your own, you don't ...
There's never any warning that something extraordinary is about to happen, is there?
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low.
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not to feel. Whatever you happen to ...
I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!
The scramble to get higher, to be seen, the cycle of creation and rebellion, everyone assuming they were saying something new or doing something new, ...
Even when you see it coming, there's no avoiding the inevitable.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. ...
Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself
Pursuing godliness without also pursuing biblical truth is a sure-fire way to remain in spiritual infancy (Eph. 4:14). The
The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality ...
You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have ...
We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.
Life will hit you hard, regardless of what you do - adventurer, business person, king.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the ...
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage ...
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of ...
What did one do after having a one-night stand (or, in my case, one-afternoon stand) with the school's biggest man-whore?
Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why ...
I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it ...
Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.
I like women who like each other and empower each other.
Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because ...
I don't know what comes next. Mourners please omit flowers, probably, and for all of us. But I don't care.
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing ...
I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.
Nobody has it coming.
Believe me, I've lived long enough to know that no matter how stable a life may seem, there's always something that can change all of ...
Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole ...
No, " Miss Warren said. "Your sister, she's dead
Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.
Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition.""But I feel better," Jared ...
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble ...
Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.
Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending ... when women do better, economies do better.
I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. ...
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
Zen is ... joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself.
The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.
Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses ... " That's it.
We don't have to know everything. If you believe in fate and some kind of meaning and sense in this fucked-up world, then believe with ...
And there are no pockets in shrouds!
Have you limitations, my lord?" asked Sir Anthony.My lord looked at him seriously. "I do not know," he said, with a revealing simplicity. "I have ...
Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.
He was like a damaged bird. And they always die, she thought.
Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That ...
Poking around in this dump, as it would be
Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.
Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.
The people who were content with each other spoke as little as those who bristled with resentment or boredom; it was the rhythm of their ...
Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?" "The past is the future," Aunt ...
When you put pain in perspective" - she pauses to find the right words to articulate the sentiment - "it isn't that we experience it ...
Y'all got your heads tucked so far up your rears, she's petrified the kid's gonna need a shrink before he can shit in a dish.
The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so ...
There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when ...
No smallpox vaccinations have been given worldwide since 1980, and in some countries like the USA, since the 1960s.
Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand
It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus