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At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas ...

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

Colley Cibber, are apposite here: "It is not to the actor

Magic is pure energy, not an intelligent entity. This energy will move quickly through the path of least resistance.

Don't you like animals?""As an entree.

The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were ...

Observable Fact: You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your ...

Great things only come with great effort.

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' ...

Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and ...

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language," she said. "That's one of the reasons that we have poetry.

The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.

Some days taking up your cross feels like putting up with an annoying coworker or a flat tire. And some days taking up your cross ...

But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking ...

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in ...

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a ...

Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled ...

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city ...

I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do listen. I have a lot ...

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You ...

When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, ...

You're my existence. I'm yours

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who ...

A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, ...

The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. ...

Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL ... Thomas Moore ... to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with ...

Don't look back in life and have regrets. Go for your goal!

At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than ...

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch ...

The old saying 'if you want something done, then do it yourself' is as relevant now as it was then,

That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, ...

Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor." "What kind of a name is that?" "It's a nickname." "What kind of a ...

And I love her. And she promised. She promised me always.

Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you ...

Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

The codebase turned out to be almost 3 times the size of the web version, with most of the code being new. While building the ...

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did ...

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also ...

Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given ...

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

Should I tell her that I can't sleep, I can't eat and I miss talkin' to her? Or just sittin' with her? That I miss ...

That's war, kid. You can hate the guy next to you, but he's always got your back.

Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then ...

The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a ...

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 ...

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, ...

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The ...

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you ...

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty ...

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in ...

You are a sociopath, Adrius. You don't only do what you need to do. You wear whatever face you need, whatever emotion you desire like ...

How do you like your eggs?" she said. "Hard or soft?""Hard," he bit out. "Why am I not surprised.

I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I ...

We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, ...

Years of fighting, andm before that, a lifetime on the cusp of it. Conflict we didn't understand ... had been at the center of everything.

Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man ...

Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, ...

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect ...

As far as Ahsoka Tano was concerned, the only thing worse than being up to her armpits in battle droids was waiting to find out ...

When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow ...

Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for human ...

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.

Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racistI would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it.A 40 ounce to ...

Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong ...

The stars have a strong effect on our daily shopping lives. Hollywood is astrology's only credible conspiracy.

Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so ...

One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

Gold adulterates one thing only,the human heart.

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square ...

If I should ever have children I will tell them what religion they are so they can start learning about it at an early age. ...

We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..'Soften' the stance..'Straight Talk' involves least effort..No 'beating about the bush'.. Say it as it is..Ofcourse, stay ready to be ...

'If I have to choose between love and nice hamburger, I allways go for hamburger. Shit happens faster in that case.

We are essence of love, and when we die that love returns to our Father. This angel's love was corrupted, so I believe my Father ...

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is ...

Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. ...

This year's campaign marks the first instance that the WFE has gone beyond the Arabian Gulf, aiming to

I'm fairly certain I'm having my first truly religious experience, and it's probably a very bad thing that it's happening in a church, but it's ...

Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls ...

What do you want to know from the astrologer, akka?" "Will I get married? Or will I have to stay single all my life?

People almost never look as bad on the outside as I do on the inside, but that's sort of nice because it reminds me that ...

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of ...

That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off.

There's no self-expression or joy in these joints no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking ...

She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.