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I have an 800 [freephone] number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in ...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
[Among the Arapeh ... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community ... ] If one comments upon a ...
Kaji's ways," Abban said. "Interpreted by corrupt Damaji to their own ends over the centuries.
If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
Green is the soul of Spring. Summer may be dappled with yellow, Autumn with orange and Winter with white but Spring is drenched with the ...
The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left ...
Books are a finer world within the world.
Money has no religion except itself.
The coals seem to glow with such life, but she knew it was all an illusion.The embers were nothing but the last breath of death. ...
What is the difference between an author and a writer? A writer, as we know, writes; an author has written. What does an author do? ...
It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, ...
My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed ...
You cannot police me, so get off my areola
A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear - ...
I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the ...
His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the ...
My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one [is that] I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. ...
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations ...
The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.
A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter ...
For here, the moment all the spaces along the road between here and there - which the young know are infinite and all others know ...
'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating ...
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because ...
People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. ...
When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make ...
You meant so much to me ... that I couldn't even say I love you.
I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to ...
When you aim for the stars even if you fail you'll be a falling star, and that's wish-fulfilling material.
A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe ...
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that ...
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have ...
Be yourself, be in the moment, you're going to be modern
The disadvantage of not being together at same place, not meeting each other personally, not able to talk with each other eye into eye, not ...
Of late she'd become impatient with the inexplicit needs of boys and men and their acting so rashly on what they could not fathom and ...
A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.
Self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other ...
It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] ...
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to ...
And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. ...
We are hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The imam preached there to the migrants go ...
May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.
I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do ...
Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.
A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter ...
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
Bring a mirror and let a dirty face recognize itself.
A radiant glow enveloped Alaura. Soft eruptions of various shades of effervescent green danced in the air and frolicked in the locks of her dark ...
A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.
When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em!
What? It's not my blood!""Let me see it," Julian demanded, and a moment later there were sounds of a scuffle from the back seat."I am ...
Attacks characterised by little more than malaise are likely to be regarded as mild viral illnesses. Attacks characterised by alteration of affect and consciousness - ...
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.
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I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last ... My job is to be the best ...
He leaned close to her and took a deep breath, unsettling her. "You smell of lavender. I wouldna believe a shepherdess would smell so fine.""I ...
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury ...
My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he ...
I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick ...
You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.
The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an ...
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 ...
How do you juggle it all' people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. 'You're fucking it all up, aren't you' their ...
But my thoughtsbreed truthsthat my heartcan'tbare.Like Melody.
Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have ...
Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in ...
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
Start the good job today by your self and let the generation end it tomorrow by them selves.
True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the ...
Gethen shouted threats as they left, but the warnings were as empty as his sandy cell. His final words to Keefe were the only ones ...
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value ...
By then, [1737]...the French were taking advantage of the new "reading rooms" created by architects such as Blondel and of new seat furniture and had ...
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of ...
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
So why was I so scared? Because crime is something relative; it's something the government defines and redefines whenever it pleases.
The Beauty of Death
Our souls are old,often used before.The knife outlaststhe hand that holds it.
The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development
Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.
If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will ...
And so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.
It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement ...
Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you ...
A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his ...
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. ...
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.