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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness ...

She is the harbinger of nightmares as well as death, destruction, and insanity. Said to reign in an alternate dimension, a bleak and desertlike twilight ...

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Cauthon lives," Arganda said. "And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of ...

Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't ...

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy ...

But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety, and now the Alethi elite danced with abandon.

None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness ...

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an ...

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.[Lat., Pluris ...

I have no animosity against any living soul.

Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don't have the ...

You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the ...

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments ...

The only advice I give to acting students is, 'Be nice to your underclassmen. You never know who might be in a position to help ...

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable, or ...

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.

Oh definitely. It'll be in a hot tub, with my entire head squeezed into a jet. The photos are going to be hilarious. Man, I ...

The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but what fruit have they to show for this such as ...

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct ...

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition ... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things ...

People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else ...

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.

The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.

I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but ...

I wouldn't have minded a rather more detailed conclusion (to Pride and Prejudice) - say, a twenty-page sex scene featuring the two principals, with Mr. ...

In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being ...

We' are the self (chetan, Soul) and obstruction (antray) are non-self (achetan, non-Soul); therefore, the Self (chetan, Soul) shall win in the end!

I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los ...

You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked,

If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.

Contact with the world, with which I have been steadily rubbing shoulders now for fourteen months, makes me feel more and more like returning to ...

What I am afraid of is ... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on ...

You can acheive if you believe

Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the ...

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in ...

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals ...

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was ...

The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last ...

Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the ...

Hypocrisy, is when individuals become abnoxiously contradicting, unrealistically criticizing the government of South Sudan, but yet are part of the puzzle underneath the Salva Kiir's ...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few ...

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the ...

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't ...

It will show you that there's a certain amount of irony to life. For example, I started an online business so I could work from ...

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst ...

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions ...

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they ...

When an answer finally comes to me, I know I've completely lost all my wits - or as my mama used to tell my father, ...

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

90. Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.

We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for ...

Everyone has tragedy in their life at one time or another, it's how they deal with it that defines them.

Aidi nodded. "Lying to yourself's always a problem," he said.

Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we ...

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing ...

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between ...

What you teach a child today can have life-long results. If you love, encourage, and treat a child with respect and dignity, that child will ...

Only people, especially Anglo-Saxons, are so afraid lest joyfulness may somehow be reprehensible that they will never admit it as a lawful and laudable end ...

That is the kind of shocking accessibility conveyed in Jesus' word Abba. God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, ...

We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

An ancient human religious figure known as John the Baptist had once claimed, "The truth shall make you free," but if Aelyx remembered correctly, John's ...

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and ...

At a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

Look, this isn't about the ring or when I ever made a hamburger, which, for your information, was my senior year of college.""Right, when you ...

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

This morning I'm a mosquito, now you're a flying cart? Arosia

You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. ...

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want ...

To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually.

Oh definitely. It'll be in a hot tub, with my entire head squeezed into a jet. The photos are going to be hilarious. Man, I ...

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one ...

Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin ...

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Dawn wore a pink dress and crept across the land like a timid girl. Her sister Morning followed, dressed in blue, the sun a dazzling ...

Tristan pulled a dagger from his coat - because, apparently, Tristan carted bloody weapons around in his coat - ...

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.[Lat., Ultima semperExpectanda dies homini est, dicique beatusAnte ...

I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports ...

Monica's eyes were fierce and fiery, but she didn't move, and after a second she turned and ran up the steps to the second floor, ...

I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't ...

Skyler often thought that the Seneca quotation Poe included was a dig at Dupin-or perhaps Poe himself: Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. "Nothing is more ...

One of the things you'll learn, Anduin, is that sometimes you can't always do what you'd like to do. Or even do what you think ...

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense ...

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking ...

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.