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What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...
However, the ability to control attention is not simply a measure of intelligence; measures of efficiency in the control of attention predict performance of air ...
Architectural photography can involve a lot of waiting; the building becomes a kind of sundial, while you wait for a shadow to crawl away from ...
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez ...
Hey, so I told my hoe yesterday that ... Aww, he talks to his shovel. How cute.
I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but ...
At any given moment, someone, somewhere, is blowing a kiss.And somewhere, someone is catching it.
I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you appreciate ...
Ty's always refused to come party in NOLA, so we knew we'd have to bait-and-switch you down here." "Wow,
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - ...
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so ...
Quentin went to work on a bitter single malt Scotch that tasted like it had been decanted through the stump of an oak tree that ...
The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology - the printed book - and
Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna ... ...
God ever arithmetizes.
Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub's days of happiness came to an end.
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.
I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.
I want you to be careful in this world. My heart is wrapped up in you.
I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,Except to say it isn't worth a dime,And the ...
It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of ...
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
Okay, okay. I can do this, I can do this just breathe. Mentally I prepared myself but it didn't help with the feeling of jumping ...
Life is all arrivals and departures.
Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the ...
What the fuck kind of twisted fun house is this?
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure ...
I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does ...
Have you had contact with any other survivors?""Only one," the Alderaanian senator said grimly. "Lock onto my coordinates. He's waiting for you.
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking ...
New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...
Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was ...
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate ...
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when ...
The imagination is our inspiration, that's what makes dreams possible.
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
I'm from southern Arelon, Princess," Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. "To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like ...
Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.
Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an ...
Memory depends on the medium, I thought; brains are such imperfect recorders. I
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse ...
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman ...
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and ...
Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me ...
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia ...
More than two hundred Aberowen men were killed on the first day of July, there on the banks of the Somme River. I have been ...
I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum ...
Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on ...
I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make ...
Forming good values and beliefs comes by determining what they should be and then building them inside of you
And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities ...
Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will ...
An organism at war with itself is doomed.
Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.
Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone.""I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.
You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can ...
Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone ...
Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.
Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-damaging effects of radiation.
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas ...
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and ...
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or ...
I am Levi Black and my record was spotless; I didn't mess around with students, I didn't lose cases, and I sure as hell didn't ...
It takes a powerful motivation to lead to murder. That's why people don't usually murder comparative strangers.
For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with ...
People can talk all they want about the Big Ten. About Michigan and Ohio State and Indiana and Kentucky or whatever, but there's no way ...
Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.
I didn't feel like a big fat idiot anymore. And I didn't feel like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen. I felt fierce and humble and ...
Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat ...
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears ...
I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.
I think these movements and become them, here,In this room's stillness, none of them about,And relish them all-until I think of whereThrashed by a crook, ...
Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people ...
Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.
Every quarter of a century an angel has touched one candle. Every prayer that was offered over the candle was answered. The Christmas Candle has ...
What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced ...
Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.
I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.
If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or ...
Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft ...
I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going ...
To have a "light-bulb moment", the power has to be on.
Remember, your highest goal is learning, and only in action does true, experiential learning occur. This is what you climb for.
I Know an easier way to fix though,Oh Yeah? I am all ears, because it's giving me a fit. Trade it for a chevy
The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to ...
Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
Patriotism. During his lifetime of study he had concluded it was the most destructive force on the planet.
In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...
I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were ...