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The media - stenographers to power.
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that ...
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of ...
Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of ...
I am not in the giving vein today.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line ...
Unless you're the lead dog the view never changes ... mercy out does justice every time:always find your way back home/
It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting ...
I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, ...
Isn't there the light of seven heavens in your heart alone, the way you'll be an angel's lamp to me from this out, and I ...
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to ...
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
And strong-looking. Like the kind of guy you feel standing next to you before you actually see him, because he's blocking so much ambient light.
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for ...
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
By creating fantastic content and spending zero time on audience development, you are certain that you will not succeed on YouTube. You have to focus ...
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for ...
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.
Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and ...
We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.
When I'm feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, sometimes I'll read a book. But most of the time, I will either listen to music or play ...
His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in ...
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang ...
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database ...
Luc : It's time for our annual review of Rules You Disrespectful Bastards Never Follow.
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to ...
Well, well, well," said Aitch Dee, his arms folded across his chest. "Well, well, well, well," replied Pavel, not to be out welled.
My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling and ...
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the ...
There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'
Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.
Your burden of life becomes much heavier when there is no one around you to appreciate how heavy the burden you carry!
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of ...
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen ...
There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise ...
Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
We will not have peace by afterthought.
The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own ...
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the ...
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you.
A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they ...
I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other ...
When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. ...
Cut off the dead wood before it kills the tree.' If you have friends who backstab you, get rid of them now before they hurt ...
Would you like some more pancakes? Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to eat on the job. But ...
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, ...
She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.
The original reality of Amitabha is our own Dharma body, It shines out brightly everywhere, in the South, North, East, and West, It is like ...
The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger ...
We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are ...
Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence
We'll always be compatible. You're an extension of me. A piece I've been missing for so long, Bit. ...
How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in ...
5) "lost" prescriptions (for example, a customer dropped off a prescription on Tuesday and returned on Wednesday only to find that the pharmacy staff can ...
I'm not fretting over control with you. You can have all of the command you desire as long as we're together. I'll just save my ...
I told him that neither he nor anyone else should ever underestimate the strength and power of the United States: those who had - Imperial ...
I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, ...
I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had ...
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. ...
I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.
For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory's The Sport of Rowing certainly ...
If you don't like the table, then you have to flip it over.
I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of ...
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking ...
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to ...
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
He looked steadily in my eyes, and held my hand affectionally. Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known ...
What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.Then they'd ...
Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama's deficit speech.
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to ...
My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science-that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth ...
At playtime she twirled and spun across the playground so fast that none of the little boys in her class could catch her and they ...
Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom ...
There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics ...
The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. ...
I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age ...
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for ...
But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself avoid trying to ...
Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.
Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is ...
Oh, Jack, look how beautiful. Jack, look how darling that monkey is. It was like going camping with Merry Little Sunshine.
I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph ...
When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a ...
How can a world full of evil, corrupt people also contain such beauty?
A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.
Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the ...
It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street ...
The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.