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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
Because it exists as a living sonority, music is animated by voices, and these voices do not evaporate when music confronts the insights of contemporary ...
It still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude - all the qualities ...
Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.
May my soul forever stay wild and my spirit always be adventurous.
Like in the animal kingdom, where every creature has its defenses and weapons, humans also possess powerful instruments for camouflage, defense and attack.
I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that ...
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, ...
A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means ...
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
Behind every fortunate woman is someone who believes in her - someone sitting in the bleachers, quietly applauding every success, shouldering every disappointment, waiting in ...
Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.
Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.
Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one ...
I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!
When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very ...
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, ...
What we preach in church. We believe in the resurrection on the Day of Judgement and in eternal life. The reunion of loved ones is ...
Uh.. you'er Sophie?" Mrianda ventured"That's me""How old areyou?"Sophie rolled ker wide brown eyes, "Ahunderd and forty-eight" she relied. "I got to live back when women ...
Accepting your flaws is a hard thing to do when you're constantly reminded of them.
Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was ...
If I was the pope, I'd've made Mrs. de Roo a saint. On the spot.
And the most ironic thing? If Kanin hadn't Turned me, I would never have met Zeke. But being a vampire meant I could never be ...
In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her ...
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 ...
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities ... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's ...
There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
I thought that Christianity was undergoing a bit of a comeback?' 'Well, if you're into rock bands and happy-clappy Christianity, I suppose it is
At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.
Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn ...
My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk ...
Strap a piece of toast -buttered side up- to the back of a cat. Throw the cat out of the window. Will the cat land ...
The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital ...
In all my time in Beijing, I'd never managed to have a female friend. It seemed every woman in this city was busy either with ...
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...
Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining ...
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
He woke with the impression of light fading, but the room was dark. Afterimages, retinal flares. The sky outside hinted at the start of a ...
The name of the place was Is Vesnara Shast, which translated to The Wandering Road. What Lila didn't know, not until she saw Lenos's unease, ...
Life to me is a beautiful gift from from AdoShem that should not be wasted but shared with others. Including amazing revelations that are meant ...
Only inexperienced demon looks horrific to mankind.
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
What's fair ain't necessarily right.
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any ...
I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' ...
Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.
Simonides of Amorgos says, "Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters." ...
There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while ...
The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied ...
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, ...
So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent ...
The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at ...
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me ...
Jimmy: You'll end up like one of those chocolate merengues my wife is so fond of [Alison starts banging jars] ... sweet and sticky on ...
How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial.
The double doors separating the private dining room from the rest of Bernard's swung open. A tall broad-shouldered body filled the doorway. Hugh d'Ambray strode ...
To possess something and not know its value is torturous.
I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer.
Don't forget that we come into this life with out anything and with out anything we are going to leave, nothing is more valuable than ...
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early ...
Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.
At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the ...
I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt ...
Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
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I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.
If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link ...
English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.
Anarchism is to Marxism-Leninism what Anabaptism was to the magisterial Reformation: a revolutionary movement predicated upon negating, rather than seizing control of, state power.
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do ...
I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was ...
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant ...
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, ...
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
Just once, he looks back at Arsay, and I feel like an entire encyclopedia of information and words is exchanged between them. I wish I ...
People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about ...
I am a true man, neither thief nor tracker. I need your Ring: that you know now; but I give you my word that I ...
Or more precisely, is there anything I can do for you, ma'am? (Waiter)'How about a bag for my head, or a stick to beat Lanie ...
Most agencies run scared, most of the time ... Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising ... If I were aclient, I would do ...
I thought of my new uncertainty: How long can I live with ALS?I thought: "Don't search for answers. Live the question."Enjoy life more because of ...
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there ...
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. ...
I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.
I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.
Hot soapy water cures a multitude of ailments. Wine, the rest of them.