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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. ...

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world ...

Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll ...

The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.

Believe fuels unending blessings.

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. ...

I always found Dickens very coarse. I don't want to read about people who drop their aitches.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig ...

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what ...

A stone / which in its own archai, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

I'm not anorexic, bullimic, or any other "ic" you can think of.

May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and ...

People grow up by living.

I shaved away my teeth and made them into little pencil points for nice teeth, that's kind of weird if you think about it. I ...

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was ...

He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor ...

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new ...

You are the artistic painter of your success. Paint your life day-by-day, into a masterpiece of excellence over a lifetime.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I ...

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it ...

I love ... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind ...

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found ...

Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.

He'd shoved his toque and mitts into the sleeve of his parka when he'd come in the night before, and now, thrusting his right arm ...

Antistatic devices (ASD) are commonly used in many industries and may present a health hazard to those who work with these.

And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a ...

A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever ...

I presented him with an African violet, which I saw as symbolically useful, though I'm not sure the others understood the subtleties. (African violets must ...

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. ...

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia ...

Creating art is basically creating a series of failures

Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness, said Amenhotep III.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it.You should never will a change in your work-you ...

Is the hell we know better than a heaven we don't know?

I am a woman whose moods are influenced by the weather, my outlook rising and falling with the barometer.

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt?

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.

There were Arcadians here, Katagaria, Dark-Hunters, demons, humans, and who knew what else. By rights none of them should get along and yet they were ...

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would ...

Megeara wants to find it. (Arik)And people in hell want ice water. The entire history of mankind is written by people wanting something they can't ...

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people ...

Sestrilla, hafelinaJue amourasestrillaAwou jue selavienaEn patre jueTranslation:Beloved one, little catI love you for all timeIn this timeAnd all others

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in ...

To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, ...

Had I known you had pure, or what you thought were pure intentions, in that silly mind of yours, I wouldn't have tried to kill ...

You can't make everybody happy.

A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

Arithmetic arithmetockTurn the hands back on the clockHow does the ocean rock the boat?How did the razor find my throat?The only strings that hold me ...

We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really ...

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us ...

There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times, Christianity gave rise ...

I'm just one of the many millions of lonely souls trying to live on the face of this earth. I'm trying to acquit myself without ...

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment ... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, ...

The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in ...

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in ...

The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the ...

One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their ...

For prayer is the language of the heart ...

Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring ...

The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure.

Money is the root of all good.

After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that ...

His quant band was gone, he noticed: he wouldn't be tracking his steps, his blood oxygen, heart rate, local EF field activity, or the five ...

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the ...

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage ...

Coming out of the anti - coming out of the Republican heritage of Abraham Lincoln, Frank Johnson could see it more clearly than Alabamians would, ...

Charlie Hebdo has been sued a good dozen times by the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect of French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), an ...

I don't have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love 'em to death - it's the same with songs. I don't have just ...

If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.

No, they're not starbusts." He continued to touch each mark. "They're angel kisses. It's like angels kissed your hands all over." His eyes rose to ...

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said

Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached ...

In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making ...

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more ...

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side ...

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed ... We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are ...

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean ...

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

The Hebrew Bible is the supreme example of that rarest of phenomena, a national literature of self-criticism. Other ancient civilisations recorded their victories. The Israelites ...

Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act and valourAs thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have thatWhich thou esteem'st the ornament of ...

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

The burning off and the gathering together are one.

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 ...

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'