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I really am Super Emmet, and like the comic book Superman, I have a powerful secret weapon. My mom.
In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.
We all need a space to just let things be, a place to remember who we are and what is important to us, an interval ...
Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.
I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public ... What more natural than that he ...
The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
Online personal branding is not about self-promotion ... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.
He looked at Azaire, and his left eyelid slid down over the eyeball, remaining in place long enough for the broken blood vessels beneath the ...
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.
The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they ...
What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?
It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.
Amandine Bisset was so passionate for Eliot Walker that tiny silver sparks flew from her fingertips when she touched him. When they made love her ...
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it ...
The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in ...
My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most ...
It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of ...
Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... ...
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so ...
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that ...
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And ...
Well, then, happy news! Hakuna matata and all that," Ian said cheerily. "We'll rest and have a fine dining moment while we wait." He looked ...
Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. ...
A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?
I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a ...
Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, ...
When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees ...
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write ...
It has been said by many that a true love story has no happy ending simply because the truest of loves never ends. It is ...
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it's one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn't exist.
Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.
You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited ...
Gretchen," Clint said, his voice full of the same luscious agony Gretchen felt building inside of her. "I'm going to kiss you." He was giving ...
To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency ...
If you're opening a hot dog stand, you could worry about the condiments, the cart, the name, the decoration. But the first thing you should ...
Supersonic bionic robot voodoo powerEquator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex
I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John ...
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the ...
Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning ...
Man is the only creature with the power to control instinct by his own will, but he is also able to suppress, distort, and wound ...
Always, I liked the infinitive 'to go.' Let's go, let's go. let's really go. 'Andare' was the first verb I learned to conjugate in Italian. ...
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard that we can ...
A willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing.
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 ...
And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts ...
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If ...
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where ...
If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper class. Abendsen, he's wrong; there would be no social reform, ...
And it's not red, it's auburn, and I'm not feisty or tempestuous or any of the other things red hair is supposed to signify. Anyways, ...
My sister just had a baby, a little newborn. The kid is adorable, so cute. She wouldn't let me hold him, she refuses. She says, ...
Don't disarrange my circles!
We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own ...
In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy ...
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in ...
I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.
You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so that you look ...
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.
The alt-right 2016 is like punk rock 1977: it's daring, new, socially unacceptable, inevitable, and scaring the crap out of everyone.
After several months in our trio relationship, my husband and I started telling friends about our girlfriend... No one seemed to mind the concept of ...
Accustom yourself to tireless activity.
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 ...
There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it.
The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark ...
It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting ...
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all ...
In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single ...
I don't want to find someone I can live with, I just want to find someone that I can't live without.
And Anwin said, "It turned out just as an enchantment should.""But Anwin, it wasn't an enchantment really, it just - ""Yes, child, it was the ...
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under ...
Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. ...
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
You can't change anything unless you can discard part of yourself too. To surpass monsters, you must be willing to abandon your humanity - Armin ...
The worst stage was when one could tell she was still awake and almost alert, but she knew that nothing worked. Imprisoned. She was imprisoned. ...
Friends, we have now won ... I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And ...
I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.
I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually ...
They'd come for you, and this time they'd come with weapons.I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.Never afraid of you.
We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal ...
A house is not a home until it has a dog.
Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she ...
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. ...
When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.
It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring is worse.
Everybody had one thing in common: we were all taught to hate Israel and the Jews. In the universal hatred that was preached against Jews, ...
Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about ...
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after ...