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There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of double ...

The new elites have no allegiances to nation states and don't care about the damage they do to workers, the environment, or the rest of ...

Why does everyone always leap to the awfullest conclusions right away.

Locker rooms are not, in actual fact, the secret clubhouses of the Effortlessly Thin Women's Fat-Lady Harassment Society.

Holy cow." Rene blew out a long, slow whistle and pressed a hand to her chest. "That man is enough to give a girl heart ...

He was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people ...

But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, ...

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

To ACCEND (ACCE'ND) v.a.[accendo, Lat.]To kindle, to set on fire; a word very rarely used. Our devotion, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up ...

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

Sometimes you just gotta let some tears out or you'll burst. -Miz Allemond

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side ...

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus

Let you win? I heard somethin' about that chivalry shit, but when I get behind a start line, the only gender I see is Ford ...

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here ...

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter ...

I used to feel more straight for certain months and then just think about boys all the time I'm attracted to women who are very, ...

Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are ...

If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.

I don't want a man who will look after me - I can do that for myself. I want a man that can break me ...

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

Well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for ...

I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and ...

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 ...

In this life, you're either a man or an actor, there's nothing in between.

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK.

Sometimes, you just have to let go ... and embrace what you've become.

It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want ...

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.

I think it's wonderful and important for there to be so much choice for customers. Wouldn't it be such a bore if we all created, ...

When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something ...

Why should I help you?" Jardir asked. "Because," the Par'chin said, "we're going to capture a mind demon and make it take us to the ...

She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society.

Let us end this farce, observer! Give me your final, most beloved act of "will"... The one you most wish to believe was your own ...

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

When you banish me, you who are maryadapurushottham will be writing a law which will render innocent women of coming generations homeless and destitute.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, ...

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.

The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on ...

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I'm using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense ...

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; ...

Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. ...

Many of my ex-girlfriends were habitual half-asian daters. These women considered half-asian men 'exotic,' 'sexy,' and 'just-like-Keanu Reeves-in-the-Matrix. I consider these stereotypes appropriate because I ...

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, ...

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for ...

Akrasia [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

Each new child that's born to the Antrobuses seems to them to be sufficient reason for the whole universe's being set in motion; and each ...

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and ...

It was this that frightened methe sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.

I'm like, "Well, damn, that means that I have to carry a flag." I don't have the freedom to just do anything, because I have ...

Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

I don't know whether there is a God but there sure is someone acting out of spite

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

And let's be honest, you weren't exactly harmed. I even took you home." "You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked ...

She thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

That's exactly what I'll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I'm going to ask BigBrother to teach me how to read this map. With ...

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

Me and nature are two.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

After three rings the call's picked up on the other end. "Laura Stodgill here, U.S. Department of Anomalous Devices of Unknown Origin. McSpadden, what do ...

Because for me, you are truth. My truth. My heart, is all you.

More than anything else in the universe, more than the power to dictate law at Taranoke, more than the knowledge of the count of stars ...

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

By the end of that first day, the advance landing forces at Gallipoli had already suffered nearly four thousand casualties, or considerably more than the ...

Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you something to fucking kick about

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we ...

Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a ...

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters ...

Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Anthony honed the razor along the old leather strop and stared intently at the metal blade as it went up and down, flipping back and ...

I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. ...

... I was soon wondering if I would ever again be able to attend a mass assemblage without my mind starting to play tricks on ...

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine ...

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by ...

I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work ... It's ...

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

War is the national industry of Prussia.

Faith gets the most; love works the most; but humility keeps the most.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

I am a bad boy." He hops on his bike, and I do the same. "That's exactly why you should stay far, far away from ...

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of ...

See, it's that kind of attitude that irritates me. My wolf is only a part of me, and while she might think you smell good ...

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon ...

We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their ...