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Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to ...

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as ...

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, ...

The occasional alarming flash of Aral's doubts, like vivid filaments of lava seen through a surface one had thought safe stone.

He'd given her the mother of all hangovers - a run-in with the wrath of grapes.

For example, you go to Fuji, and there are no animal attacks. Why? And I think that gets you into the world of "The Walking ...

There is no chronic disease to be found among fish and animal life in the sea that compares to those on land.It is also known ...

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to ...

At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.

Always DO YOUR BEST TO BE KIND TO ALL & When You're Finish ... Be Kind Again!

Just as truly as the Confessions are the autobiography of St. Augustine, The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the ...

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say ...

To read an expert contribution on growing up Muslim in America by Abdu Murray, a lawyer, apologist, former Shia Muslim, and author of two published ...

Addison's disease and colitis. Twice a day the doctors shot him up with a

I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters, and this girl ...

Friendship is a door you will never need to knot on as you will always have a key.

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

I plead with my Moonlight fans to give this show a chance if they let me give it a chance. I can't do Moonlight again ...

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are. ...

MRS. ANTROBUS: What, George? What have you lost? ANTROBUS: The most important thing of all: The desire to begin again, to start building.

Did they teach you how to pronounce 'Avada Kedavra' when you bought it?" I ask. Victor just stares at me. Probably because he's never read ...

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

Rather be a thin dog free, than to be a fat one chained

Freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as ...

In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, ...

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And ...

Abstention, self-control, self-inflicted pain: these are forms of power - about the only kind you can have when you're a fourteen-year-old girl, by the way.

And with all of the enemy's citizens living at the bottom of huge gravity wells, we don't even have to aim particularly well. Einstein was ...

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

Only in living by the effect of Christ's sacrifice and after its pattern can the saints find out and attempt to do 'what pleases the ...

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some ...

Design has purpose, Art has meaning. Find purpose and meaning in your life.

Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. ...

Moltmann indicates, "the Church can only be apostolic when it takes up its cross. Its apostolic succession is the succession of the suffering Christ

Most people in relationships seldom know what they really want, ask for what they really want, or show what they really feel. Most people avoid ...

Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max

I am not pro-abortion any more than I am pro-appendectomy.

All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, ...

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why ...

The world is your lobster!

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art ...

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision ...

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly ...

Is she very terrible?" The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. "All little girls are terrible, " he admitted finally, "but the Marquess, at ...

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I'd been dominant because I knew myself, and in knowing myself, I had the confidence to bind and hit and hurt, because I'd know when ...

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really ...

There was nothing so special about First Class, apart from the amount of uncalled for, almost disturbing, attention I got from the various six-feet tall ...

You see the barren earth when We send water down upon it, stirring, sprouting and producing every sort of lovely species.* That because God is ...

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies ...

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I ...

That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're ...

It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people ...

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked ...

The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is ...

She would just ride around until her mind cleared from the fog of coveting her past life; not just her life in New York, but ...

The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate ...

In the daytime, I know that they're (Russians) close. But at night, my optimism abandons me, I buckle. The night is German, and who am ...

The raw and natural sounds of Aero music don't subtract from it's beauty, instead it creates a rich soundscape for the musician to create within.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.

Collecting is my passion.

God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so ...

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps ...

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great ...

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that ...

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection ...

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...

Most politicians' voices dripped with air kisses and firm handshakes, affable and approachable, telling you what you wanted to hear. But Jonathon Brond had an ...

Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who'd been subjected to ...

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves.

Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had ...

Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence ...

And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she's so different from him. She's as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck ...

Actually, you can be bad at something ... but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

I realize life is a beautiful mess. You can make it more beautiful by accepting the way it is. If you don't accept, you'll mess ...

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done ...

I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.

They pushed and pushed for so long. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know I would snap ...

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in ...

Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity - he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of ...

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in ...