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What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you ...

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Hell hath no fury like a woman, or perhaps a homosexual, scorned.

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, ...

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained ...

So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I ...

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But ...

The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. ...

Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate ...

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of ...

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you ...

It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place ...

You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here ... but it's more like someone else ...

Is there some kind of trouble? Did he do something to the real Hogfather?" SQUEAK. "Why won't he tell me?" SQUEAK. "Thank you. You've been ...

I'm a killer, Gabrielle." He snarled the words at her. "That's all you need to know. Is that what you want sliding into your bed ...

Although Oppenheimer's mind was not the whiz-bang computer of a John von Neumann or the astral navigation system of a Hans Bethe, it processed other ...

Ashington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. ...

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And ...

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with ...

I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning ...

Ad astra per aspera- From the mud to the stars

In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on ...

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all ...

I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters, and this girl ...

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they ...

What is it that angers us? ... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph ...

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with ...

How furiously she loved them and how heavy it was to carry that quantity of love, how perilous to care for those delicate bodies in ...

When I was still imaginary for him. Before we were married and I solidified.

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which ...

The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part.

Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle," the grim gaptain said, his voice stern.

Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of ...

As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the ...

Her soul opened slowly and timidly to her kind, but her imagination rushed out to the beauties of the visible world; and the decaying majesty ...

Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. ...

Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be ...

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate - it is on a par with calling flying the art of not ...

Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister's choice not to ...

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

An eye for an eye my friend.

Those who want the truth, get truth. Those who want lies, get lies no matter what I say.

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will ...

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the ...

Aedion snorted. "Hurry up with the eggs. I'm going to die of starvation.""Make the bacon, or you don't get any."Aedion could hardly move fast enough.

The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited ...

Against the wounded sky, a lone angel circles above us. No, not an angel. Light glints off curved metal on one of the edges of ...

There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words ...

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And ...

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well ...

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better

I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you ...

And who knew? That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert, Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven You may have ...

The job has not been done to Admiral Hyman Rickover's specifications. He admonished, "Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.

I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is ...

I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.

Rough fingers palmed his throat. "Can you forget that, amante?" Soft kisses brushed his forehead, nose and eyes. "I can't. I dare you to try." ...

You miss Azemmur, she said.Yes, I said. And I have grown so used to the pain of missing it that sometimes I feel as though ...

When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy ... Clearly white ...

I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If ...

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to ...

What will be / the sacred words?

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. ...

Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a ...

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I'm from the South - I love to eat, and that's why I have to exercise.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.

We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our ...

Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a ...

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we ...

My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble ...

That is what a motorcycle road trip is supposed to be about, long miles and short stops in obscure places with interesting people and stories ...

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Naked souls are poor things ever,

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. ...

Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin saved my life. That's how I view them giving me a record deal, with nothing but love and adoration. I ...

Smart girl 101: Never let a stranger follow you to your hotel room.

I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that ...

Allah in the name of The Most Affectionate, the Merciful.

Now and then it is okay to get lost to find yourself in a new way.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit ...

The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind ...

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

Arisaid. A night breeze brushed a strand of hair across my face.

Forgiveness of others allows us to adjust our feelings towards the past, assuages our anger. Our