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We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry ...
... If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the ...
The big white house glowed on the hill above them, tranquil in the afternoon light, the big red spruce behind it a looming but benign ...
Eyelashes. She smelled of ambergris, roses, library dust, decayed paper, minium and printing ink, oak gall ink, and strychnine, which was being used to poison ...
Theria snarled at him."Careful my dear, your teeth are showing, and I imagine that is frowned upon here too ... Why don't you do yourself ...
I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard ...
In my hand I hold a small guardian angel figurine set in a smooth, clearstone. It's beautiful, a promise of love. Of forever.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist ...
Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and ...
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.
If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [ ... ] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a ...
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know ...
If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA. They are going ...
I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
" ... One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even ...
Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as ...
If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.
You cannot do it unless you do it
You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in ...
I'm pretty far out of the loop. There's always a lot of speculation and what-have-you. I'm sure it's fun for people to watch and have ...
I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage
Thus even the most wretched individual breaths like a leaf in a verdant forest. His national identity supported him. A revered history receives him. A ...
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of ...
Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon
One dark brow arched. "You're getting the fuck-me look and thinking about Arnoldo? Do I have to kick his ass now, too?"Chapter 11 pg. 193
Are the computers going to fail? one of the artists asked him, licking ketchup off her thumb. She asked it like she was hoping he'd ...
I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or ...
What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the ...
You're an asshole.""And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.
Albert made of solid alligator - he heavy.
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.
God gave me Life but people made fight...
She stalked toward me, hips swaying side to side, eyes hardened with anger. Echo pushed her body agaist mine, parts of her fitting perfectly into ...
Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living.
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted ...
There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested ...
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, ...
I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest ...
In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon ...
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United ...
Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja.
You done decided you want to go to the dance yet Brenda?" "Didn't I tell you that dances was lame?" "What's lame about them?" "I ...
A warning to you both - choose to follow me or oppose me and I will kill you.-Connor Kenway
Too much anthropos makes the world a dull hole.
I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.
A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking ...
If one could amputate part of one's consciousness ...
Never forget that a mother's hug lasts a lifetime, long after she lets you go.
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise ...
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
I don't have arachnophobia (irrational fear of spiders) because fear of spiders is perfectly rational so I refuse to recognize it as a "disorder.
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature ...
People say Altamont was the 'end of the '60s.' It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn't think of it as signaling anything. The ...
I can't be yours forever, Mab," I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. "I already belong to someone else. ...
Every time I come to Auburn it's nothing but love
Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and ...
It is a contradiction this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall.
It was not always unpleasant to deal with a hysterical woman. One feels so thoroughly righteous in comparison.
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past ...
Death is only one of many ways to lose your life.
The thought of publishing - of the whole world reading Afterworlds - had always made Darcy feel naked and exposed, but loving had left her ...
I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse ...
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were ...
She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.
It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to ...
Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs ... shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?
All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.
P.S. I'm going to throw an absolutely mind-blowing fact your way. I'm not kidding, either. The country of Uganda is obsessed with Celine Dion. They ...
The American people don't read.
Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.
It's the old shell game.
Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same officers. They are ...
I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but ...
You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.
Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science ...
How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.
Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump ...
There's always going to be someone out there ... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not ...
When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While ...
I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, ...
The police in Punjab has been politicised; it has become a wing of the Akali Dal.
Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.
All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are.
Even the darkest moments of one's life can be turned around and shed light for others.
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of ...
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a ...
As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. ...
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that ...
Yeah ... I finally understood it ... That exchanging information ... Sharing time ... The act of "let's go to the bathroom together" was the ...
The next name on the list is Ed Valiantbrue, which doesn't have an O in it anyway.""O!" Sunny shrieked. "O!" Klaus agreed. "O!" Sunny insisted. ...
Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.
People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.