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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks ...

Carnival laughter does not permit a single one of these aspects of change to be absolutized or to congeal in one-sided seriousness.

What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want ...

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of ...

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length ...

Argentinity is an invention to make ourselves governable

...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.

Well, it's a sad day when I'm the nicest person you know."-Jonas

A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it ...

Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search ...

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know ...

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal ...

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

A perfect woman's but a softer man.

What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, ...

But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others.

Ah, furchte fruchte, timid Danaides! Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe ...

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms ...

If I'm not feeling super confident about an outfit or a little insecure - I'll probably accessorize my outfit with some jewelry.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

You make me crazy!" His eyes light up, glittering onyx against a backdrop of violet jewels. "And you inflame my heart.

I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but ...

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.[Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectusExspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can ...

You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. ...

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing him (though it's not in the Russian ...

People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the ...

I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. ...

It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a ...

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were ...

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

My feet catch the roof like the arrester hook of a fighter jet coming into an aircraft carrier.

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held ...

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way ... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, ...

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the ...

Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.

Why are you so angry?"His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. "This isn't angry," I smirked. "This is just me. Get used to ...

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings ...

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ...

Possession of the pure synthetic specimens of the anthocyanidins and chief anthocyanins enabled my wife and me to devise quick tests for these colouring matters ...

While they rightly question every aspect of their "own" Western culture in the name of progress, they censure liberal Muslims who attempt to do so ...

To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, ...

As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very ...

It's hard enough to track many simultaneous changes, let alone join in with them! However, we must embrace the fact that code changes: any code ...

Freedom within is embodied in things as well as people. Like coins tossed into a wishing well, they contain our hopes and dreams.

When a woman is attracted to a man, it doesn't matter if he's rich or not.

The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs," he said. ...

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my ...

The B'nai B'rith is established by Jews in New York City as a Masonic Lodge. 70 years later this group will establish the notorious Anti-Defamation ...

The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort ...

AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

Only slightly less magnificent than the neighboring palazzo.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put ...

This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop

Do you know the secret of my success, Alamiri? It is not that I am a great warrior, or that I am cunning or strong ...

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the ...

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips ...

Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will ...

I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting ...

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it ...

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical ...

Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer ...

When he closed his eyes, he felt how it might have happened: slowly, Laurent's mouth opening, Laurent's hands lifting hesitantly to touch his body. He ...

Modern amorists are sometimes taken aback at the prospect of investing in a relationship with no guarantee of reward. It is precisely that absence, however, ...

Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; ...

Been ignited by loose talk, by leaks," Amburgey went on, "the fact the city

The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful ...

All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and ...

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of ... In literature, as in allthings, there ...

There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we ...

There's a part of everyone that needs to be taken care of. Denying it exists doesn't change the truth, it only makes you very lonely.

If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're ...

We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization ...

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! ...

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

There was nothing that made a girl feel better about a guy humiliating her than a different cute guy asking her out.

Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.

You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's ...