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UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy ...
The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, ...
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an ...
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,it is exceedingly short.
Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the ...
You know what happens when you assume things?"I left out a sigh. "You make an ass out of you and me." ... "No, you just ...
Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving ... ' Alema ...
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers ...
Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.
Wars, crimes, crashes, fires, floods - much of it the social and political equivalent of Adelaide's whooping cough - became the content of what people ...
Branding is a verb, ya heard? Now get out there and BE your brand.
Always know in your heart that God is by your side; he never abandons you! Let us never lose hope! Let us never allow it ...
Anyone who made it through the screening and the training required to become an Arkie" - which doesn't include you, Julia - "will understand exactly ...
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, ...
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but ...
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 ...
The beast that was civilization ever faced forward, and in making its present world it devoured the world to come. It was an appalling truth ...
I love my kids, I'm a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal ...
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Obviously he's courting the entire family," West told her. "I can't speak for everyone else, but I for one feel thoroughly wooed." Kathleen's
A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, ...
The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are ...
It wouldn't have mattered if they were scratches or not," he says, his voice like liquid. "I was bitten during the escape from the house." ...
Once a year my back will go out and it'll be ... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could ...
If you are not a king, do not accept the throne, which is the sit of your downfall.
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like ...
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with ...
To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all ...
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout ...
If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he ...
Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.
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 ...
Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story worth listening to. ...
I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it ...
I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it ...
Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose ...
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' ...
To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.
I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.
I didn't know that you could love and hate your parents totally separately and equally. But you can. And I do.
Me sins are great, and I'll burn for dem. But if ye never believe anyt'in' else, know dat I loved ye more den anyt'in'. Ye ...
He murped, then went to the edge of the overgrowth and stood there agitatedly, waiting for me to follow, glaring at me like I was ...
Of course she'd understood for years now; she'd worked out long ago that families, unless they inhabit American TV shows, do not communicate when they ...
Must be the hair then. And the name change. And your new piss-poor attitude. Because every once in a while, I look at you and ...
For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder ...
I no longer believe in literary schools now; I believe in the individual.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.-Leonardo Da Vinci
There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal ...
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
[M]aking a show was better cover than trying to stay inconspicuous; Western capitalism in particular allowed the rich just about the right amount of behavioural ...
There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.
This was always the difficult part, back when she'd been at her old school: explaining that "asexual" and "aromantic" were different things.
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?""Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you.""Je t'adore aussi. ...
Through the white snow-gate of our ampitheatre, as through a frame we looked eastward upon the summit group; not a tree, not a vestige of ...
What have I left,from loving you?Just my voice,with no sudden echoJust my fingers,which grasp nothingJust my skin,which seeks your handsAnd above all fear,of loving you ...
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter ...
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, ...
Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with ...
I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of ...
I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.
I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush.
Gabriel.This has to be his fault, somehow. I'm going to track him down, pluck out his angel feathers, and stuff a pillow with them.
I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I ...
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I ...
If this was a middle-class family in Alfheim, I didn't want to split a lunch tab with the one-percenters.
That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it ...
I think the place we love the most is the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It's in the 19th arrondissement. It's where I would go jogging ...
In embracing your difficulties is liberation.
I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws ...
War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of ...
[As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when ...
I wish him episodes of glorious, sun-washed tedium and a loss of innocence he will contemplate for the rest of his life.
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And ...
I fell back into the sofa, letting my head thump against the wall. Of course, there would be something else to complicate things. I couldn't ...
So, Azalee - " When he turned to her, she stared daggers back - almost as though she had read his mind. Can Chertzes do ...
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his ...
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they ...
In the beauty of countless danseuse in my palace, I saw an endless suffering in the form of distorted and diseased figures as the absolute ...
Don't forget where you came from, but always remember where you're going.
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a ...
As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry.""And you're still not sorry," I reply."I will stand by what I said. Do you ...
If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
The Germans were still hunting Alek, trying to finish the job they'd started on his parents. Someone had to be on his side. And, as ...
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more ...
Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do ...
That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do ...
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have ...
One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in 'Axe ...
Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds ... For a guy to feel like ...
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than ...
There is no cure for narrowness of mind ...
I am Damian, the king of Antion, and no one will ever take someone I love from me again and live.
The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It's a valid critique ...