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I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

What once hurt, eventually helped me to heal.

I'm sober.""That's not my concern. I know you'll never make that mistake again.""Then what's your concern?" the younger man asked, his tone aggressive."You and her.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms ...

He shot her an incredulous glance. "When do you sleep?" She glanced deliberately at her watch. "Sometime between fucking and ruling the world.

There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own ...

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child ...

Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...

Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage ...

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

Put the damn measuring tape away," Vee ordered. "I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have ...

Straight is the way to Acheron,Whether the spirit's race is runFrom Athens or from Meroe:Weep not, far from home to die;The wind doth blow in ...

The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of ...

I think you're something wonderful.

This is what happens when people die. They start to disappear if you don't watch it. Not all at once, but a piece here, a ...

The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.

Announcin' your plans is a good way to hear god laugh.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be ...

Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your ...

Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians - any who believe in Allah ...

That we're not dealing with your ordinary serial killer. More the Twilight kind. And this one isn't a vegetarian.

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself.""The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark ...

Is she okay?" "She's only been out for five minutes.""It's been a long five minutes.""Hey! You were out for a whole hour when you went ...

I turned.Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere to be seen, dressed in his usual immaculate black jacket and ...

I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that ...

I walk the three blocks to the school slowly, like if I'm not careful of every step, every tiny movement, I will lose my grip ...

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

There's nothing as boring as perfection

The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come ...

Lead a meaningful life. We are here for a purpose. To make this world a beautiful place.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative ...

I wasn't as good at semi-normal conversation as I was at ones that were written down, or adrenalized in a surreal moment.

They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyay. Kino sighed with satisfaction and that was ...

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 ...

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole ...

PSA3.5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage ...

If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another ...

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

The hands were ivory-coloured, the skin finely wrinkled everywhere, like the crust on a pool of wax, and under it appreared livid bruises, arthritic nodes, ...

The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his ...

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies ...

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God ...

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone ...

Wisdom's daughter walks alone.That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

A solemn reminder not to make our goal in life one of sheer material pursuit. The allurement is great, and the disappointments are proportionate.

She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an arresting way of ...

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our ...

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called ...

One day a pickaninny was happy and the next the light was gone from them; in between they had been introduced to a new reality ...

The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels ...

You have touched my soul, and I have seen your heart, and I know I am forever changed by the essence of you.

She is Trouble," Gabriel groaned. "And you know it.""Nope, she's aggele mou.""A devil's angel, maybe.

Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they ...

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Technology is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well which include coding ...

Teach that asshole some manners."I winked at her and smiled. "Anything for you, baby.

Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way you feel, so ...

He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road.

Shutterstock has evolved from an image-based marketplace for small businesses to a much broader platform, with a large and expanding addressable market opportunity.

The Episcopalian ideal of a gentleman is a man who, if a lady falls down drunk, will pick her up off the floor and freshen ...

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.

That's why I have birthday parties - to celebrate making it through another twelve months of dealing with assholes and not killing any of them. ...

What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?

I paced the house when I couldn't sleep, imagining another day of not feeling this body against mine. This body was made to fit me ...

Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is ...

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over ...

That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another

Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note.

I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. ...

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an ...

Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.

I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, ...

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types ...

Rest is in Him alone. Man knows no peace in the world; but he has no disturbance when he is with God.

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine ...

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and ...

If you can't dream big, ridiculous dreams, what's the point in dreaming at all?

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that ...

When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in ...

My mom and dad came into my room, and even though it was really not big enough for all three of us, they lay on ...

Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his ...

She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even ...