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Turn yourself over to Aksel, and I might let her go. (Arast)Yeah, right. And I'm a one-legged dung dealer. (Nykyrian)
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
Most great truths are expressed in the common language of life; some understand them, but most people utter them without knowing how much they mean.
Thus I found that I had been encamped with the ancient Arameans. They thought God was present only on the mountains;[10] I thought God was ...
I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep.
Professor Morgulis wrote: "The acuity of the senses is increased by fasting, and at the end of his 31 days' abstinence from food, Professor Levanzin ...
One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.
It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they ...
On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ...
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with ...
If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?
The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, ...
Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate's portrayal of the 'Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the ...
Idolatry, especially that of the body, is for Athanasius a kind of barometer, measuring the perversity into which humans have fallen, the degree to which ...
This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what they need, bring ...
Who is this invisible antiterrorist? It's me, Mindy Kaling. I was hiding behind Cee Lo's fur coat, and no one saw me.
Apapa, Falyn, she scolded with a perfect Greek accent.
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.
Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they ...
[Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken ...
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that ...
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 ...
The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long ...
We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love ...
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 ...
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.
We must do without hope.
I don't think anybody in the world is perfect. I don't think anybody is absolutely good or bad or stupid. Each one of us combines ...
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service ...
While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to ...
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
If I were a rock star, I'd have Taylor Swifted him and written one of those anthemic I don't love you anymore songs.
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I ...
Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose
The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.''What agreement?''The Berlin Agreement,
In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder ...
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
I took a back seat and did whatever it took for the team to win.
Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house ...
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, ...
But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.
Then I'll find another solution. You and I are alrunes, Lil Falcon. You'll never lose me.
It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.
Are you really going to go all the way to Helsinki to see her without getting in touch first? All the way across the Arctic ...
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a ...
She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but ...
The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and reviewing it. And ...
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, ...
A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so ...
My mom told me once - relationships end until the one that doesn't. So you can't be sad, really. Because if the wrong ones didn't ...
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
A learning curve isn't a perfect arc.
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole ...
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson ...
But there was something else that I discovered in Madrid. It had more to do with the spirit than it did with knowledge and yet ...
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct ... it ...
Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all ...
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the ...
All you need is time ... and you have it ... NOW
As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like ...
This piece of iron which he had been allowed to keep aroused a more profound wave of gratitude towards heaven in his heart than he ...
Stephan always looked like a model, but he never needed more than ten minutes to get ready. I found it both convenient and infuriating, depending ...
I would not trade any of these features for anybody else's. I wouldn't trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I ...
But Marcello hadn't rushed into marriage. He
Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our ...
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking.
I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive ...
Working with kids is usually very fun. They get so into movie and they're up for anything. Usually they're having such an exciting experience, everybody ...
You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to ...
How about when I get to work, I have a new chair at my desk with a note attached saying," Your new chair, if you ...
Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was ...
Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long ...
This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease ...
When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.
I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common ...
Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.
If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of ...
If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, ...
For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or ...
You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
Kids are anarchy writ large.
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a ...
You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel ...
Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
Okay, this is going to be confusing, kid.-Amelia Pond to her younger self in the pandora box
We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them ...
In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It ...