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Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now ...

Tabitha's quilt was more than pieces of fabric sewn together. It was a patchwork of souls.

I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a ...

There is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of ...

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such ...

It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would ...

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works ...

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to ...

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by ...

I was living alone before, Campbell, if that's what you're asking." She looks at me over the edge of her wine glass. "How about you?""I ...

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go ...

Zane didn't laugh this time. In years past he had sat uncounted times in the dark of night,smoking, shooting up, drinking, wondering if the coming ...

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

The lusts of this world leads us to fulfill our carnal need to be accepted, but as children of God we are already accepted by ...

People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.

Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary ...

No relationship is perfect nor will anyone ever be the best boyfriend or girlfriend. Long as you put in the effort and try to make ...

Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre ...

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate ...

When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting,Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.Merry, merry, take ...

What are you waiting for? How long will you keep waiting? Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan ...

I wish you the wisdom to recognize where your past relationships were poisoned ... and the strength to break the cycle of accepting less than ...

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love ...

So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?I had a bigger hole to fill.What do you ...

Instinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as ...

Writes very good books; about very bad things.

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done.[Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne ...

What death is, and the fact that, if a man looks at it in itself, and by the abstractive power of reflection resolves into their ...

I haven't been back to London for 40 years to do a play, so to play Madame Arcati there, she would be tickled to death ...

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond ...

Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework ...

An elaborately jointed array of bones landed in my lap, spasming like a broken crab. My cry was every bit as manly as that of ...

I try to fill the emptiness deep inside me with Cheetos, but I am still depressed. Only now my fingers are stained orange. I am ...

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that ...

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It ...

He's a great mysterious Bodhisattva I think maybe a reincarnation of Asagna the great Mahayana scholar of the old centuries." "And who am I?" "I ...

This is what love is. Not the moments on the beach, or under the stars or the trees, or in the moonlight. Love is sitting ...

Every second vibrates within our Present moment, our now. In one split second of awareness, we can create a Life full of Light, Joy, and ...

Yes, I prosecute bastards like him, make them pay for what they did to innocent victims who can't fight for themselves. And every time I ...

Want to try it?" Dad offered, patting the arm of the chair. "Fifteen different kinds of massage. It analyzes your back muscles and makes recommendations. ...

Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco ...

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Global digital parasitism is the new Trotskyism.

It's late,' he said again, murmuring, almost crooning now, his voice smoother than silk. 'Sleep, my Bella. Dream happy dreams. You are the only one ...

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the ...

An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem ...

AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you ...

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of ...

People ask me a lot, 'what can one person do,' and I say 'I'm not really sure what one person can due except come together ...

She dreamed that night of chickweed, which was a strange thing to dream about. Chickweed is a low, weedy little plant, not very distinguished. No ...

Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men ...

It's a true story of a girl falling for a boy. Nothing more. Nothing less. And I wouldn't want it any other way.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has ...

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.

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 ...

Issues need to be addressed. So do boxes of bricks that need to be mailed. Make the shipping label out to Kat Nelb, 2332 Blanket ...

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn't joyful?

I think athletically I can be okay with any role, but I'm willing to go over and beyond for my work. My fan base is ...

I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the ...

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

My life is not so much a life, as a series of awkwardnesses.

In fact , the life is generous with who lives his personal legend.

Cast upthe heart flops overgasping 'Love'a foolish fish which tries to drawits breath from flesh of airAnd no one there to hear its deathamong the ...

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the ...

This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had ...

Reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?

I know reels can be expensive but even if you construct one on your own if you don't have enough money to get a more ...

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see ...

In Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone's name would reveal their religion, their ...

It was easy to tell Jamie to move on, be happy with someone else. But she saw now that it would absolutely kill her to ...

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche ... Water brings death to the psyche, ...

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 ...

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over ...

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be ...

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear ...

It is on my mind every hour of every day that I have 168 hours this week to improve my life. It is really up ...

...rationality can easily unveil the futility of life and lead to depression - as the stereotype of the extremely smart, but world-weary, educated man (often ...

I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things ...

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I ...

But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa ...

Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both ...

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not ...

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut ...

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ...

Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete ...

Even if no one is listening to you or you are being persecuted, go on speaking, do not keep quiet

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.