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But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal ...

Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do ...

Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ...

Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dareTo Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,In Riddles, and Affaires of death;And I the Mistris of your Charmes,The close contriuer ...

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It ...

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something ...

This is spooky," Minho spoke quietly, "Alby hold my hand." "Dude chill.

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

No cursing," I scolded him. "You're a knight. You don't get to do that. You gave up that right when you swore your oath to ...

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know ...

Given the fact that he'd had only the barest of plans upon arriving in Arendelle, the end result was something of a miracle. True, he'd ...

Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick.

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No ...

It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make ...

In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of ...

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on ...

I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs. I'd say the ...

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that ...

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to ...

I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the ...

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind ...

With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out ...

After years of breaking Rules and settling for random hookups, she finally meets a cute guy and after one kiss she has an aha! moment. ...

Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens.

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. ...

Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is ...

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role ...

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

Now, late at night, she lay in bed alone, wishing the feel of the sheets on her body were the feel of a mans hands ...

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold ...

Throw in something extra. Whether it's a coupon for a future discount, additional information on how to use the product, or a genuine smile, people ...

We were peering into this darkness, crisscrossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and ...

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much ...

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard ...

I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say?

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I ...

CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest ...

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a ...

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him ...

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you ...

Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...

Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.

Mom as it's your birthday And, unfortunately, not mine Give me some money and I'll get out your hair While you have a large glass ...

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. ...

You're the most experienced investigator I've got who's not tied up in something, and I can't ask the Consort to look look into it, because ...

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing ...

We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold ...

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. ...

Relationships like this are built on honesty and trust. If you don't trust me-trust me to know how I'm affecting you, how far I can ...

Finding someone who thinks you're interesting enough to talk to you every day, whether they're a friend or a lover, is one of the best ...

The law holds man in bondage; love makes him free.

The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering ...

She rolls her eyes again, but laughs this time. "You probably have callouses from jerking off too much." I hold up my right hand. "But ...

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain ...

Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true

'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but ...

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to reprimand him. He can become ...

Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.

The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because ...

Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet ... nattering nabobs of negativism ...

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's ...

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten ...

You are so bloody frustrating!" he roared, back fisting another rabid with the axhead. "Do you really think the cure is worth this? You think ...

See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near ...

Let's absurdify life, from east to west.Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does ...

Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant ...

Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of ...

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires.I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have ...

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding ...

She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into ...

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Well if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner.""Aspargus is ...

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of ...

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? ...