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I am like a huge rough stone ... and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact ...
Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other ...
When Don Anastasio Somoza fled the country, he took with him everything he could carry, including all the cash in the national treasury. He even ...
I am not a brave man ... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.
Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.
If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, ...
Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at ...
Don't you mean 'assclown'?" he looked amused."No," I said louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the ...
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. ...
I promise you. You will survive this. Feel my hand. It is yours now, my queen. I promise you. I am yours.
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation ... surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been ...
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're ...
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
Anpu," Scathach whispered. "I think we're in trouble.
The Colorado River was at a record low and the towers in Lake Mead stood high out of the water. But the Angelenos committed communal ...
Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikleyIn this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,They go ...
I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from ...
Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes ...
Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have ...
Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?
The world is full of paper, write to me
It's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.
I have to agree with Artforum publisher Charles Guarino: "It's the place where I found the most kindred spirits - enough oddball, overeducated, anachronistic, anarchic ...
Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor."I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was profound. I ...
But if they have a flashlight, it means they're human and not some kind of monsters from the surface,' objected Artyom."I don't know what's worse," ...
Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind . ...
Thank U Godfor making me such a wonderful personThe Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansBabaji
The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.
Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most ...
Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their ...
I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home.
All of Dragos's sentinels were mean and barbaric and sexy. Even that weird harpy-bitch Aryal, who she might have a teensy girl crush on. You ...
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 ...
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere ...
From a parapet on Bryn Shander's wall, Regis, Cassius, Agorwal, and Glensather watched in horror as the wicked force flowed down the stretch away from ...
The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of ...
If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, ...
Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.
Some people spend their days talking about how cool they areothers spend them doing things that make them cool
I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with ...
I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated
I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I ...
I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No ...
Anytime a broken heart is suffered, and there is a crushing pain inside the chest, this is a physical manifestation of the emotional experience as ...
Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly ...
Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion ...
I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more ...
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, ...
God's manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the ...
It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation ...
The holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more ...
There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with its value wines. These are generally not from specific ...
I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' ... And I loved 'Knight Rider' ...
He has 'le coeur comme un artichaud'. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' 'Oui. He has a leaf for ...
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I ...
The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of ...
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.
There's a girl, Dad."He smiled a bit. "A girl.""She kinda hates me, and I kinda ... ""Love her?""I don't know. I don't think so. I ...
One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, ...
My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God - there's ...
That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was ...
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did ...
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting ...
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with ...
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this ...
It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.
I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I ...
I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last ...
Wait for someone who bumps mouths clumsily with yours cos they're too busy smiling to kiss you properly. Yeah. Wait for that.
Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice ...
Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.
Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a ...
When I rehearse, it ends up doing more harm than good. I think I work a little bit better when it's right off the bat. ...
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we ...
I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays ...
With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave ...
The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life ...
I've met my bride-to-be in Italy and I will be married in Italy soon, in a couple of weeks. In Venice of all places! In ...
My friend, judge not me,Thou seest I judge not thee;Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But ...
A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones.
This is Wedge Antilles of the New Republic. I am trapped on the Star Destroyer Vigilance in the space above Akiva, and I am in ...
But the thing is that I'm in love with Rafael's story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but ...
The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.