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Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research." The words were out of Laurel's mouth before she realized how bad they sounded. ...

Istory is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between the Achaens and ...

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and ...

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough ...

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.

For ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in ...

To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.

I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, ...

For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the ...

The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were ...

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.

But he wondered how very different two worlds had to be before they kept people apart.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in ...

Try to be polite.""I'm always polite.""You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite.

Don't cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface

I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me ...

In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which ...

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and ...

The second is that the American people tend to oppose whoever they see as the aggressor in the Culture Wars - whoever they see as ...

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

Achati chuckled. You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women.

So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company ...

It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends ...

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience ...

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

You going to fuck her or kill her?" Anneke asked when Nyx sent Mercia off with her bodyguards. "You never look that close unless it's ...

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of ...

The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like ...

Softball was the most fun because of the opportunity to shit talk.

He had no frame of reference, and couldn't read - most faeries were studiously averse to print.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' ...

Remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise

One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), ...

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I ...

The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged.

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

I think that's my new band name," Shane said. "Asshat and Nerd Girlfriend. It's got a ring to it.

Life is a gift, so appreciate it. Love is abundant, so share it.Enthusiasm is infectious, so spread it.Kindness is divine, so embody it.Peace is the ...

Stay away from these three people if you want to lead a happy healthy stress free life. Lawyers,Doctors and Priests. Lawyers take your money,Doctors take ...

Well, then, happy news! Hakuna matata and all that," Ian said cheerily. "We'll rest and have a fine dining moment while we wait." He looked ...

Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."Ayame: "As ...

Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, ...

You wouldn't be here if you didn't care, Abby.""I don't." She glared at him, so full of life she almost glowed."You do." He kissed the ...

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its ...

Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth ...

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

What is it like to a be published author? Image clawing your beating heart from your chest and flopping it onto a plate for a ...

One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- ...

If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome ...

Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so ...

Lucky for you, since you're the most dangerous man I've ever met. Asane woman would run away from you, not toward you.

Success can not be administrated.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive ...

I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do ...

By associating votive offerings with sacred images, the Catholic Church, it its wisdom, had left its formerly pagan flock a legitimate outlet for the inveterate ...

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And ...

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of ...

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come ...

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself ...

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you ...

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense ...

Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. That's right - it's used to produce diabetes. This is bad news if you eat anything ...

Papa, please get the moon for me.

I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. ...

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First ...

Many works would be senseless, real junk, but for the fact that, being art, they are exhibited because they have a message of almost religious ...

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, ...

Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet ...

(1) Never give anything away for nothing.(2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait).(3) ...

We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult ...

In life we all go through things, but its how you come out of it that matters

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I ...

Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally.

At least you know about Jean-Luc and Heather, don't you.""Nay. I was shuffled off to a remote island for four months. I believe that's what ...

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without ...

Always radiate positive currents of ... Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination.

How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, ...

The Ocean is big, I am small, yes. But I am nothing, And I realize that it is worth the struggle To Live And it ...

I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. ...

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,(Cedit ...

He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.

We generally think of atherosclerosis as a condition of the heart, but it's been described as "an omnipresent pathology that involves virtually the entire human ...

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.