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In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than ...
Why do we say experience is a must when we know we are never ever going to have the same experience again for it to ...
Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: ...
Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...
The problem is that our children increasingly have not been given enough of the Christian faith even to apostatize from it properly.
Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, ...
Oh, and I'm also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you're in St. Louis.
We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity ...
If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in ...
It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class
When an Angel whispers in your ear, it is your heart that hears thy message.
I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. ...
I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a ...
My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just ...
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a ...
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's ...
I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia.
I knew it!" she said, glaring at me. "You're in league with the devil." "Duh. I'm affianced to him. Or, well, his son. I guess ...
Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've ...
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty ...
Every day was filled with surprises. What a change from the network affiliate. Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no ...
I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. ...
I do not like violence.
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
Well, the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn't giveout ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions.
There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. ...
I am Celaena Sardothien,Adarlan's Assasin.If these men knew who i was,they'd stop laughing.I am Celaena Sardothien.I am going to win.I will not be afraid.
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic ...
My imagination and power are limitless. Nothing can stop me from achieving my dreams.
All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for ...
Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad.""I bet""I'm serious. I was heartbroken.""For how long?""A whole week." ...
I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn ...
Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after ...
I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard ...
Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - what do you think jump ...
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron ...
Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature screening ...
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 ...
Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...
If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas ...
The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in ...
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: ...
The audience may not like your work; if you are very sure of your work, don't waste your time defending it, just ignore the audience! ...
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into ...
Break his leg if he was not very careful. "Watch out for the girl with freckles," he said, referring to the ball, "and for the ...
When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because ...
If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given ...
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn ...
Goodness me, the clock has struck-Alackday, and fuck my luck.
ANTRE (A'NTRE) [antre, Fr. antrum, Lat.]A cavern; a cave; a den. With all my travels history:Wherein of antres vast, and desarts idle,It was my hent ...
I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.
Don't you dare say you wanted me, because you treated me like I was the Antichrist!
All things are transitory. All things must pass. Attachments whether to material possessions, to people, to places to name, are futile. Despite your clinging, these ...
Fuck the lot of you and your hypocritical bullshit. You sit around spouting brotherhood. You don't know the first thing about being a brother. Or ...
Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, ...
Aspire to be more than your circumstances
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, ...
When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, "Allahu Akbar," because this strikes fear in ...
I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and ...
Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.
Arazmendi started rubbing his temples.
I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have ...
When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ...
The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what ...
O blessed bounty, giving ail content!The only fautress of all noble artsThat lend'st success to every good intent.A grace that rests in the most godlike ...
So I'm figuring this is death. The little air left in the cockpit is toxic with marthenine, and I can only wonder how much of ...
I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.
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 ...
If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.
An anxious mind cannot exist in a relaxed body." Body and mind are inextricably related in anxiety.
DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked ...
An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, ...
"Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?" "That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. ...
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. ...
Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it ...
You have filled every fibre of my soul and the spaces in between
Every day and every night, I dance with Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad & all personal Gods: Krishna, Shiva & Buddha. You are welcome too !
Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if ...
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a ...
[T[his isn't just "another day, another dollar." It's more like "another day, another miracle." (213)
Turns out that a real-estate agent keeps her own home on the market an average of ten days longer and sells it for an extra ...
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ...
So the world was nuts and he'd suddenly discovered a kink for geeks. There were worse things.
A human has seven litres of blood. This they had taught him in the army. Seven litres, which, with an arterial cut will vent a ...
If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and ...
Refrain tonight And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use alomost can change the stamp ...
Minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. ...
Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.