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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have ...
A rose that blooms in the desert has the privilege of being the only flower for miles.
I am Anil Kapoor's daughter, so I am always compared with legends. It is a part and parcel of my life.
Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser
You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end ... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
She was afraid of heightsbut she was much more afraid of never flying.
Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?
I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the ...
Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human.
Space - First coin-op arcade game - port of Spacewar!
He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at ...
No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling ...
It is only when the mind and imagination are enriched from exposure to the world of beauty, that artistic creativity and inspiration truly becomes manifest.
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?He knew ...
When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds ...
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that ...
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell.
The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder ...
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of ...
Blake and Livia were next to exit. He took the steps before she could and turned to offer her his hand, like a knight escorting ...
About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," ...
"Sir, what's your emergency?Oh, nothing, just about passed out watching my online Army boyfriend beat off.Sir, please don't use this line for non-emergencies.Have you seen ...
When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and ...
Yes, she would go - to Rifthold, to anywhere, even through the Gates of the Wyrd and into Hell itself, if it meant freedom. After ...
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England ...
Some people around San Bernardino say that Arthwell Hayton suffered; others say that he did not suffer at all. Perhaps he did not, for time ...
We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their ...
For magic to exist, it must be shared. Always remember to pass along your kindness to others ... A candle loses nothing by lighting another ...
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with ...
Music is the healing force of the universe.
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with ...
Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked ...
There is little I can tell you about Aglaura beyond the things its own inhabitants have always repeated: an array of proverbial virtues, of equally ...
It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).
He was not sure what he had been expecting. Outstanding beauty, or stunning grace, or something that struck him instantly to the heart. But Ankran's ...
It was so surreal. We're on the road and a split second-BAM-we jump a median-BAM-we jump a curb.And then there was this house.And these sounds.Splintered ...
Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I ...
The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many ...
But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.
And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . . and suddenly the ...
We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to sustain, support and ...
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the ...
The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left ...
Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too ...
I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.
Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
A Quiet Mind Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound ...
Kiss my ass and my anus'cause it's finally famous
After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky.
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp ...
There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need ...
What bizarre planet have I landed on? So Haley settles for a single kiss, and I lose it to the first guy to ask me ...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the ...
How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?
O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting
To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
My mother died unexpectedly, and in the months that followed I'd been gutted to discover that without our conversations, which I'd always assumed would be ...
Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
I'm not sure exactly. Against what, Addie?" Laila asks with a smirk. "Against unnormalcy. Antiaverageness.
Vale is allowed to write about anything he wants. Pater
I've learned that when we allow Him to have complete control of our lives, then anything can happen.
I never have felt that people should feel that they are better than others, simply because they just happen to possess a larger share of ...
Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the ...
And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a ...
Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. ...
Who is more responsible than a gull who finds andfollows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousandyears we have scrabbled after fish ...
There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible,
Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions ...
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. - Bell Hooks
But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence and suggestions.
You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
Churchill was an articulatory genius."~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for progressives to be racists. ...
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.
Elegance is like manners. You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. ...
... if I cannot be with my sister, then I don't want any bedfellow at all.
Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody. Naturally this makes one wonder whether after all there was something unreal in his ...
When Ragnuk killed you, I looked for you everywhere. But you didn't come back. For decades I looked for you, terrified the angels were punishing ...
Hardly out of mortal danger and already he gets impertinent.
As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."
When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small ...
Your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions.
Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.
The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.
As a backup, I intended to get a quart of defense spray. I wasn't much good with a gun, but I was bitchin' with an ...
Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and ...