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That aversives stop behavior, they don't start it; and that fear and pain produce completely unpredictable and usually highly undesirable side effects, including being both ...

Pale January layIn its cradle day by dayDead or living, hard to say.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health ...

[G]overnment endorsement ... of religion ... sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying ...

And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved.

The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every ...

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

People expect me to be thin and perfect ... I'm not.

As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been ...

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, ...

Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, ...

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

And you, Tommy" the boy said, lowering his voice. "You've got a lot of nerve coming here and asking me to leave with you. A ...

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept ...

Everything I do is the environment.

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

There is no authentic goal you can set for yourself that can't be reached, no dream that can't be realized. It's just a matter of ...

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed himAylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. ...

Worst memory is when I was fighting for a living. You have to fight and train no matter how bad your injuries. This at times ...

U is gone. I suppose you're aware. The 1st aeiouy to go. Up until now the other graphemes were not aeiouys. When the aeiouys start ...

We're afraid the others will think we're agringadas because we don't speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to ...

She reaches up and ties the strip of black cloth so that it covers my dead eye."Now, go Arrghh."Arrghh.She nods."There. You're a pirate.

I hadn't known that,' I said. 'I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there.' 'There might as well be,' Arsibalt ...

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after'With all the joys of friendship, Love, fun and laughter

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue ...

I wanted to hug him, tell him it was gonna be alright. Tell him I'm not as fragile as I look. But I can't hug ...

Oh blessed assurance,Come down, make home with us.Our hope is high for whats in store,Come move these feet towards Love.

Our job here is not to build a better world ... but to do all we can to help make it brighter.

Boys and girls can be friends. It's not weird. They're a person and they can be your best friend in the whole world.

Everything is acheivable in this world,but to acheive this you have to make an ACHEVIMENT

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, ...

You cast a desperate look at Eric, who has not yet noticed that you've been bitten. Will I turn now? Am I becoming one of ...

Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I ...

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so ... ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people ...

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Don't invite a girl on board if you don't have a six-pack antilock braking system.

Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations

She is scared and broken, yes. But she is also angreyand stunningly beautiful. I'm certain I've never seen such a beautiful creature in my life.

Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.

My favourite place in the world - the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it

What if the house catches fire?" "Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you'll go down with the ship. If there's a tornado, I'll meet both ...

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they ...

I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart

One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals ...

Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to ...

The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other ...

Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers.

I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and ...

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire's coffin? - Shella

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon ...

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a ...

I think the age of 27 to 28 is ideal for the Salvadoran player to play qualifiers. That's why we've brought players who are between ...

Encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri,

Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundaeenjoyable but not something you can acually live on.

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and ...

It was like finding a long-lost brother who farts in the same key.

I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife ...

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of ...

The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to ...

He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was ...

As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, ...

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing ...

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies ... Fiction is democratic, it reasserts ...

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need in me to ...

The yachts' berth was next to the Yas Marina Circuit, where Formula 1 would come into town once a year. At night, when the lights ...

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

On All Saints' Sunday, I am faced with sticky ambiguities around saints who were bad and sinners who were good.

We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael ...

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been ...

As I understand it, the Celts venerated all sorts of plexus-type things: the seashore, dawn, dusk, the edge of the forest - anything that was ...

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his ...

It had surprised and impressed Tessia to learn that Everran and Avaria owned two wagons, one for their own everyday use and one kept for ...

Everything can be summed up into an equation.

Sometimes when I've got a baseball player alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him. And the guys are so sweet, they ...

At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, ...

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be ...

The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace ...

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a ...

A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take ...

I think the age of 27 to 28 is ideal for the Salvadoran player to play qualifiers. That's why we've brought players who are between ...

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with ...

It's not crazy if I see monsters when I live in a fucking nightmare.

Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody ...

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own ...

[Some dogs] develop blood feuds with other dogs that are so serious that the only silver lining is a dog's inability to build nuclear weapons ...