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The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand.

The home videos aren't as good, but they are seeming to get better.

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard ...

During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The ...

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these ...

HE ISN'T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE'S ANGRY BECAUSE HE'S ABUSIVE.

Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could ...

Life. Wisteria had never felt so free since answering Lee's summons and journeying to White Mountain. Sadly, though, there hadn't been time for her and ...

She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.

I became friends on a social basis with a music professor (Dr. Alan Stein) who took a real interest in my work.He encouraged me in ...

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ...

For a fleeting moment, I imagine that if I were queen, I could make the act of hurting malfettos a crime. I could execute this ...

With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back ...

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the ...

I tossed the book aside. Great. My dad was a D-list god who frolicked in the woods. He was probably eliminated early last season on ...

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY: You wanna swing? Fine! See that tree branch? The one with the rope ...

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment - far worse than my abandonment - how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; ...

What are you doing here? (Jericho)Do my accommodations offend you? I've grown quite used to them. Though a view of something other than mangled bodies ...

I have found this myself, in my study of Hindu and Buddhist writing, especially of Gandhi. But I have also found it in the writings ...

One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar ...

With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I don't have to ...

An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter ...

Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make ...

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had ...

It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as ...

For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore ...

You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but ...

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of ...

I'll take my alkaloid diuretics wherever I can get them. If there isn't a 7-11 in the vicinity, a Winchell's donut shop is Plan B. ...

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education anddevelopment of this individuality as ...

He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or ...

Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end ...

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

Under Kingsley Shacklebolt, Azkaban was purged of Dementors. While it remains in use as a prison, the guards are now Aurors, who are regularly rotated ...

In reality, a minimalist is simply someone who tries to live simply. A minimalist is someone who doesn't want clutter in their homes or their ...

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all ...

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and ...

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why ...

Sometimes I am just playing the character. I will move out of the way of the microphone, and they will have to tell me. Because ...

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color ...

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere ...

I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I ...

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

Or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter

Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...

And I swore it to myself the night Maurice ran away," Ilyse screamed, terror and fury coursing through her veins, "and I'll swear it again; ...

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To ...

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

You who are born of the hills/ Hill-bred, lover of hills/ Though the world may not you aright/Though your soul be aweary with ill/This will ...

What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and ...

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind ...

The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as ...

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Who do you think you are?' Asiron asked, with a dry humourless laugh. 'I'll tell you who I am,' answered Parmenion, the words of Tamis ...

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

[W]andering creates the desert.

We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.

Christians and Muslims can still get along. On issues such as global warming and helping the poor.

[M]aking a show was better cover than trying to stay inconspicuous; Western capitalism in particular allowed the rich just about the right amount of behavioural ...

Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

Talk to me. I'll believe anything.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.

Be a religion to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! the best way to adore God is to love ...

Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go ...

As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and ...

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, ...

Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, ...

I had sinus surgery the day after Christmas and it has been the worst surgery of my life. Very painful, and on top of it ...

Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave?"No, Don.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

I actually start my day with a cup of warm lemon water with cayenne pepper. It jump-starts your detoxifying system in your body, jump-starts your ...

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an ...

I also love a good cheesy movie, and I'm kind of addicted to my computer.

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted ...

One of the more interesting stories in pig evolution during domestication concerns the culture-specific nature of this artificial selection, most notably the black coloration characteristic ...

Oh, my God. They were going to sleep together, with no sleeping involved.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

There is a root to every action, which is really a reaction to what is going on inside of us.

I looked away, because he was staring at me, and I knew I was flushed, and I knew I'd made a face, though I still ...

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a ...

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.