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We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment ... [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for ...
The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes ...
Aiyyo, camoflouge chameleon, ninjas scalin' your building, No time to grab the gun, I already got your wife and children
One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child.
Work hard and party harder...
An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off ...
You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and ...
For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion.
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the ...
I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American ...
Living in four parks in the state of Assam. A hundred years ago, in Africa, the population of black rhinos approached a million; it has ...
These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn't be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying ...
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all ...
I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties ...
I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't ...
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur ...
You are nothing but a bird with attitude.
Alfrescothe sommelier decantsa red sunset
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of ...
I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, ...
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 ...
In spite of the cold, this ash tree does not shyfrom shrugging off its coat, sloping its nudeshoulders to the night. So, you said, undo,unbutton, ...
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
The young woman's surprised gaze dropped to the gun in his hand and then back to his face.
The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, ...
And my Guide to me: He will not wake again until the angel trumpet sounds the day on which the host shall come to judge ...
If you will librate people from there fake rituals, they will become your retinue.
Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
If churches are to be healthy, then pastors and teachers must be committed to discovering the meaning of Scripture and allowing that meaning to drive ...
Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us ...
I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when ...
Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he ...
Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.
It is not enough to celebrate Christmas. We need to be changed and shaped by what we are celebrating. If our spiritual life is no ...
When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or ...
The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty ...
Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
Dont give up the ship... sell it...
In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once ...
The thing about sports, at least for guys, is that nobody ever defines the rules, not even in gym class. Asking what a penalty means ...
... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else ...
There must be a renewal of the spirit of our forefathers, an appreciation of the American way of life, a strengthening of muscle and sinew ...
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions ...
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward ...
Assegai and how to use the stabbing assegai, the iklwa,
When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.
You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our ...
Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley
When had things gotten so tangled in her heart and mind? Everything had been clear at one point, hadn't it? No, she supposed it never ...
Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
I blinked at him. "What does salt have to do with any of this?""It protects you from evil.""Salt?" Disbelief all but dripped from my voice. ...
It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange ...
If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of ...
We men face temptations. Sometimes we stray. It is the way of the world." "It's not my way," Matthew said flatly. "I stand by my ...
If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a ...
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions ...
My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
I don't want to go home yet." He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. "Take a walk on the wild side ...
Well, if everything stays the same forever, you stop enjoying what you've got. And stop appreciating people.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
Melons, peaches, apples, almonds, dates, Uighurs waiting in the shade, waiting for jobs, waiting for a drink of water, minarets above the rooftops.
There was absolutely no choice but to cut her adrift and hope her memory was fucked.
After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents - reached the ...
To be clear, we [the Department of Education] want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. ...
It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
We Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~
Acheron: You're really not right, are you?Nick: Yeah. I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but ...
An end to my fear of being alone. An end to a soul's solitude, when death at last arrives. There is something in that, something ...
We settled long ago," he later reflected, "that there's no reckoning with death.
I will become my undoing if I become my obsession -excerpt from Abnegation manifesto
Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he ...
The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, ...
Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United ...
When you do good work, people will notice you.
The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in ...
Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer ...
It is a perfect weapon
People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
Gerri took the glass from her hand and readied to sip. "So what's this drink called?" She pressed her lips together, trying to stop herself ...
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ...
To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with ...
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice ...
Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with ...
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest ...
I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number ...
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is ...
At the Ahwahnee Lodge in Yosemite National Park. Built in the 1920s, the Ahwahnee is a sprawling pile of stone, concrete, and timber designed in ...
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Something soft turn to stone within her. She had no choice. She had to fight. She had to win. She would learn. And then she'd ...
Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle ...