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In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach ...
What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.
Everyone feels depressed, angry or frustrated at times; it's a crossroads not a dead end.
Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses so ...
Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here." Major Major could barely recognize him because he was wearing ...
Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to ...
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely ...
I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in ...
As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers on ...
I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed ...
We need to shift our focus from putting on attractional events to creating attractional communities.
I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer ...
When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.
I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
Drugs, sex, Satan, and power, Eve mused. A religious war? Hadn't humans fought and died for beliefs since the dawn of time? Animals fought for ...
I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and ...
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. ...
What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to ...
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is ...
It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was ...
And Aragorn the King Elessar wedded Arwen Undomiel in the City of the Kings upon the day of Midsummer, and the tale of their long ...
Most travel experts recommend that even if your final destination is Miami, it's better to fly to an airport in some other city - if ...
In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was ...
His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.
Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, ...
Society reproduces itself antagonistically.
Don't let him push you around. You got this," he said. "You get on the bull, and you ride until he sees who the master ...
I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.
(That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.)
Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not ...
I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. ...
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales ...
'Adult life is a series of compromises, Adrien.' 'Yeah, only you're negotiating with the Devil.' Still not looking at me, he growled, 'Oh, go to ...
I think Hillary Clinton is right. I think it isn't enough to leave [Bashir] Assad in place, because as long as he is there, there ...
There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no ...
I do believe that Akretenesh saw no differences between a woman who was a queen and one who was a seamstress, though he would recognize ...
Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those ...
Azdaha were no joke ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why ...
No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling ...
I have got airplanes, zeppelins and apparatus.
You're bored?" she says incredulously. "You have two hands and a penis. This shouldn't be a difficult equation.
Lawyer's credo: Anyone can sue anyone for anything.
Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit ...
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. Leadership is getting people to work for you when ...
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently ...
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty ...
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios ...
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.
All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But ...
I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to ...
This year he'd been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice ...
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, ...
My mother kept quoting Picasso's mother. "Picasso's mother told him if he got into the army, he'd be a general. If he became a monk, ...
I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent the people of South Dakota, I will never vote to shut down their government, or to place ...
No spiritual master who ever walked the earth has anything on you. You're the complete package, the real deal. You just don't remember it yet.
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called ...
Talent is liquified trouble.
He poured out the wine and took a deep draught of it, then loosened his neckcloth, an act of dinner table impropriety that would have ...
I take my old seat by the window and start rapidly boozing. The lights change colors in ways that suggest I'm going too fast, and ...
Come on out, Cock-a-Doodle! Come see the Colonel. I got eleven herbs and spices for your ass." Ferrik
If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
Whoever prays twelve rakats during the night and day, a house will be built for him in paradise. Four before dhuhr, and two after, two ...
There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse ...
The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution ...
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy giftsThe world were poor in thanks, though every soulWere to do nought but breathe them, every bladeOf ...
In my sixteen years, I have experienced heartbreak, tragedy and transcending love. In my thirteenth year, I moved to Westerly and experienced all three.
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.
There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; ...
The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.
You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.
You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards more than one of those present remembered that ...
All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, ...
In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto ...
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to ...
...every physicist knows that the laws of physics can be used to build a gun or a bicycle; physics does not dictate a specific use ...
Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure ...
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the ...
Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.
The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.