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The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly ...
The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility. -Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ... Before I ...
People tell me that I should eat more, but they don't know me: I eat a lot. It's pretty unpleasant that people assume every model ...
I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less ...
I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the ...
Parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two ...
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How ...
By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
I'm just not a shoe girl.
I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents ...
Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an ...
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit ...
I don't like sticking around folks who are allergic to success!!
You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).
Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.
You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your ...
The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, ...
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they ...
It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your ...
What is that *smell*?"Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.
You have the power to make your dreams come true so reach for them and don't accept anything less.
He is not only a distraction I can't afford but a heartbreak waiting to happen. His allegiances are shaky at best. One day he will ...
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of ...
I'm not sure what he's saying , but by the way he's checking you out, it looks like you're gonna need a restraining order soon." ...
I have spread my dreams under your feet.Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, ...
One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference.
All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman
But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long ...
We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore ...
Women do not lie, my lord Dain," came a faintly accented voice from the door. "It merely seems so because they exist in another reality.
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about ...
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, ...
I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. ...
The fact that the American government has formally set aside an enormous yearly budget of nearly $75 million to increase cultural exchanges in order to ...
Also, the wizard's response to having a skeletal deer leap in front of him and a bruised and whimpering elf fall off its back was ...
A person's attitude to money determines whom he serves in life.
You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do ...
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ...
When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket
I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell ...
Evolution, and the selection of reproduction-worthy genes that drives it, is the opposite of random. It is a sieve that living things have to pass ...
Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)
As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed ...
When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them ...
Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are ...
But that night in her dream she flew high above the earth in a moonless sky. Behind her, like a falling star, sailed a silver ...
Aliens - if they exist - are little green men with big eyes and spindly arms or ... or giant insects or something like a ...
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.[Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari ...
And like some part of himself that, two days ago, had thought pray and propriety were antidote enough to what ailed the world.
There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that ...
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we ...
The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.
Apology accepted. If you're finished Mrs. Porter ---" "Allegra." "Fine. If you're finished, Allegra, I'd like to go." "I'm not." Good Lord, but the woman ...
I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .
I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. ...
God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.
We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart. Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel.
After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the ...
In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African ...
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent ...
Hic jacet Arthurus Rex quandam Rexque futurus - the once and future king.
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: ...
Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts ...
How I longed to tell her about Harrietbut somehow I could not. The grief in the room belonged to Porcelain and I realized, almost at ...
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never ...
She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just ...
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to ...
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their ...
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, ...
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense ...
Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.
Grace Murphy, defender of the downtrodden! Snarking one villain at a time with her acerbic wit and pointy boobs! If there was going to be ...
Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.
I see no greatness in my self ... I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
If you, as CEO, have recognized an approach as being the right one, you have to pursue it consistently, even if some people disagree. But ...
In Mencken's view, "religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and ... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is ...
Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt ... and that is ...
There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
Most of the time, our enquiries are triggered by desires to corroborate what we think it is, rather than the genuine desire to know." - ...
Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter. There's no technological shortcut. Adesh
Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.
It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but ...
Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it ...
It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome ...
Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. ...