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I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, ...

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

This very morning, an hour agone, he has mounted his white ass for the return journey to Vyones.

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, ...

This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a ...

I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.[Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, ...

The doors to Wisdom & Glory are never closed, they just favor the undaunted

Somewhere in the world there must be a cult of divination centered on the interpretation of cranial sutures, but he couldn't recall any from his ...

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are ...

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I ...

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of ...

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent ...

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time ...

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.

That as individuals each of us is extremely isolated, while at the same time we are all linked by a prototypical memory.

On the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca is ...

If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, ...

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.

I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill ...

King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!

A first kiss, I think, should be important, special. It should be with the person you want to kiss more than anybody in the world.

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?

Auguries of innocenceThe emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.

Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a ...

There was a party of well-dressed people with Gilt, and as they progressed accoss the room the whole place began to revolve around the big ...

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far ...

Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too ...

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

Exaggerating won't make you feel any better,.

Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer ...

If you listen to yo momma You won't ever have no fun.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers ...

...August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to ...

Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, ...

Anapana means breath and sati means mindfulness. Tang Hoi translated it as "Guarding the Mind." The Anapanasati Sutra, that is, is the sutra on using ...

[35] Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have ...

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a ...

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call ...

Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all ...

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was ...

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones ... Historic.

Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory ...

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

I wanted every novel I have ever read to end with a true beginning.

I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and whatever ...

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in ...

Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but ...

CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. ...

I think I need to give you a hockeymacation.""Hockeymacation?""Yes, I am going to school you in the art of hockey""What! Seriously?""Yes, you need to be ...

He made me feel wanted and needed and not at all alone. I don't understand how someone can affect me that way, but I don't ...

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was ...

We Are All Capable of Great Things

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show as the Sunday ...

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think abuot the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that ...

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells ...

Be an aggregator, not an aggravator.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple ...

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right ...

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely ...

I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...

He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my ...

People aren't crazy, they're just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.

Asteros's Motto: Most experience comes from bad judgement.

Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me ...

The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality. ...

He glared down at the tiny woman who looked startlingly, hauntingly similar to the little sister he'd tried to protect so many years

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since ...

I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we ...

What's this?" Amarantha said, her voice lilting despite the adder's smile she gave me ... "Just a human thing I found downstairs," the Attor hissed, ...

Please stop buying my friends if you are just going to slowly kill them.

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

The marathon is like a bullfight.

My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime ...

There is no love without suffering.

None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers - a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned ...

I'd rather live at the bottom of a well than leave Avonlea.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot ...

The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.

I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can ...

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not ...

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come ...

There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

Being a jerk is more of a habit or a personality trait of sorts, not an attitude. It's incurable.