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Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true ...

Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try ...

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are ...

She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether ...

President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no ...

Addictive tech is part of the mainstream in a way that addictive substances never will be.

But giving baby too much solid food too quickly can lead to constipation.

An Druides be, thanne answere me: whos love in Eire is moste fyn and fre?" Herne"whether in bedde or in feeld do ye meet, Flidais ...

When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

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.

And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn't dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps ...

Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6% ... No one..really knows the extent of ...

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a ...

The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a ...

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people ...

Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted ...

The captain shook her head - not in disagreement, but wonder. She glanced at Ariq. We'll do this all for free if you let us ...

A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their ...

Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential ...

I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, ...

And we sang! Her voice like burning silver, my voice an echoing answer. Savien sang solid, powerful lines, like branches of a rock-old oak, all ...

I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A ...

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

You're so stupid that you don't even realize how much I love you. You're so smart that you always know what to do to make ...

What matters is helping all parties understand that the success of the individual is tied irrevocably to the success of the whole.

She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just ...

The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who'd been aiming at ...

Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize performance, and frames, ...

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any ...

The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a ...

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out ...

EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS ...

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other ...

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a ...

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything ... the moonlight had ...

I'm generally a very annoyingly positive person, in real life. I think that might have something to do with my gravitation towards angry human beings ...

Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men ...

His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, ...

There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.

Gratitude is more than just a simple "thank you" when you receive a gift. It is about keeping in mind that you live right now, ...

Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living ...

This night has no beginning and no end. It will last forever in the Blue Moon's memories. Bless us, lovers, Mother Moon, if we will ...

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

You know how your mother and I met," Dad began.I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale.

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

If another girl ever steals your man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. REAL MEN CAN'T BE STOLEN.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting ...

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

It was her wedding dress and it had a flare-out bottom, and they had laid her head to foot in it so the dress could ...

When you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, ...

I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care ...

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this ...

Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend ...

It strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and ...

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe ...

A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if ...

Wednesday: A thousand kids running around and trampling each other on the slides at Monkey Joe's. Afraid for Brady's safety and had to leave before ...

By Pluto sent at the request of Saturn. Arcita's horse in terror danced a pattern And leapt aside and foundered as he leapt, And ere ...

He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

The 'absurdities' of life can either turn you into a 'philosopher' or a 'humorist'..Both 'opposing' poles of the same scale, a matter of understanding..Ideal, if ...

Grand," he said. "I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting to call you until I ...

The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by ...

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal ...

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Arvex led the others into the light. "Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won't wipe their boots on our ...

My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

Take risks. Whoever risk, shall know how far they can reach.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

I ... can't go to dinner with you on Wednesday.""It's almost four in the morning, Abby. What's going on?""I can't see you at all, actually.""Abs ...

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person ...

So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody ...

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

Whether *****s's feel me or not regardless style heartless foul Spit in front of the hardest crowds If They start booing I'm sticking fans Artest ...

The thought of publishing - of the whole world reading Afterworlds - had always made Darcy feel naked and exposed, but loving had left her ...

I'm a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.

To be honest, she may be kind of scared of the register. Or maybe she can't add. She is a Christian. I don't think they ...

I don't know . . . there's just something about him. You radiate joy and sunshine, and he seems like more of a wet blanket ...

Enjoy the movie. I hear the guy gets the girl" I said, my tone bold and flirtatious. "Which guy?" She laughed, playing along. I could ...

I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. ...

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions ... until you get to the ...

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