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The coupling of aryl halides with copper at very high temperature is called the Ullmann reaction, which is of broad scope and has been used ...
Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's ...
The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But ...
Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.
I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...
Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now ... ? It's like I said to ...
Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.
It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.
...duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.
I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort ...
I will not tip toe through life only to arrive safely at death.
You, Luce," he said, his voice tired. "There may not be a shortage of Adrianas out there, but there's only one you. And that's the ...
Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,
Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their ...
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. ...
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to ...
That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know whatthat cost you ... A woman's trust is the ...
Life's a little bit too crazy for my liking right now.
I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my ...
When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at ...
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it ...
Don't bury it, use it. Don't keep it in, give it away. Don't turn that love in, turn that love out.
Occasionally the three days will lapse without the FBI completing its background check. When that happens, a buyer, who has waited the three days, can ...
There was no law that explicitly banned women from driving in Saudi Arabia. There is none today - the Kingdom's notorious female driving ban is ...
Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used ...
Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at ...
There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall ...
What she'd done for him, because he'd asked.
I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.
Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
For things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track. We hear them before they are seen, and it is always the ...
We have been taught to believe that "heaven" is above us, but I believe it is all around us. The material world is solid, the ...
All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And ...
It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year.
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll ...
When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons ...
For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around ...
Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with ...
According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in ...
When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special ...
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever ...
MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT ...
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does ...
Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.
Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is ...
I aine never seen a fox before. So, why should I be scared of you and I don't even-now know you a real fox for ...
I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to ...
When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel ...
...because life is short and you too are thirsty.
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for ...
I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been ...
Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on ...
[ ... ] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history of ...
The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts and ...
Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.
Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.
What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage the more the minimum, the better.
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her ...
Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other ...
Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end ... Charlie: When do the good things start?
The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane. ...
I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by ...
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose ...
But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes ...
All I can do is stare blankly at the captain. I finally blink. Reincarnation must be real, because no one could get that stupid in ...
In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and ...
Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these ...
When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, ...
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art ...
All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been ...
It's the digitals. Leith has that word he uses for the shift from analogs to digitals. That word he uses about eleven times an hour.
Merit karma is a credit amount and demerit karma is a debit amount [owe the amount to repay]. One is free to spend his accumulated ...
I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar ...
What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish ...
No one cares what YOU want, they only care about themselves.
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you ...
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity ...
The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is ...
I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, ...
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In ...
Gluten sensitivity may also cause asthmatic attacks.
I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been ...
Actions are based on attitues but behaviours based on character
An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential ...
I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.