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We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm ...

But to measure cause and effect ... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. ...

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, ...

Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have ...

Curious," Bauchelain said. "What is it you wish us to do for you?""Usurp the king," Imid Factalo said."Usurp, as in depose.""Right.""Depose, as in remove.""Yes.""Remove, as ...

He charged in, raising his ax above his head, and the boar rammed his tusk straight into Ankaios's crotch. Ankaios died, and he was remembered ...

One day ... " Gabe whispered. "When my heart is mine again. When I'm not sharing it with a dying girl ... I'll give you ...

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for ...

Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain ...

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

I'm not used to being at a loss for words.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the ...

You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.

People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people ...

They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it ...

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,My figured goblets for a dish ...

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no ...

I am so useful. I am not alone. And neither is he. "It must be nice," said Aubergine suddenly, "to have a friend like that, ...

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover's eyes: all of this is yours; you ...

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

I was a lone wolf. Or at least a lone dragon anyway. We liked to work alone. Others would merely cramp our style. Or steal ...

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...

Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article "The Luck Factor," says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same ...

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

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 ...

My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It ...

Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and ...

The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value ...

People die when curiosity goes.

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.

Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what ...

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional ...

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow ...

I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have ...

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You ...

I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least ...

Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a ...

I had a Coors beer. I never cared for Adolph Coors's politics, but I wasn't sure I cared for anyone's, and he made a nice ...

So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.

The people want government that works for them at every level.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid,

You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?''No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.'She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said.'I ...

People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

The anesthetizing against caring really threw me for a loop. I was seeing it with 15-year-olds. It was how they were starting their intimate lives. ...

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that ...

Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.

The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message ...

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, ...

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, ...

Aaro's mouth tightened. "I knew it," he said. "I knew, as soon as I saw who was calling, that this would be another massive goat-fuck ...

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

She had found in the past that a voluptuously long, hot shower cold be made to seem almost as health-giving as a night's sleep; she ...

Something Zachariah told me filled my mind and excited my heart: "A Sailor," he said, "chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port ...

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

Before her diagnosis, sometimes she felt like an outcast. Someone from a different world that spoke a different language. Now she knows she is an ...

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...

I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that ...

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when ...

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to ...

Roy received my comments with a forcedsmile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps ...

Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living ...

And always, always, it is worth it to sing alleluia in defiance of the devil, who surely hates the sound of it.

To have one man's nut lay against another man's is a most awkward position to find oneself.

There will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring.. Agian..

We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a ...

During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, ...

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

(A thrill of dread runs through the whole group; ASGARDSREIEN - the ride of the fallen heroes to Valhal - hurtles through the air.)

Did I get to go to my friends' houses and eat junk food? Sure. And I'm a great cook. And, guess what? There's no prepared ...

Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all ...

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

All of us are better when we're loved.

Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle:

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes ...

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but ...

Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the ...

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires ...

The creative process isn't easy, even for chocolate-fountain people. It's more like a wobbly, drunken journey down a very steep and scary hill, not knowing ...

There was a party of well-dressed people with Gilt, and as they progressed accoss the room the whole place began to revolve around the big ...

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

He'd promise to see an organic nutritionist, aromatherapist, deep-tissue masseuse, feng shui consultant, yoga master, and Mormon stand-up comedian if those promises would help him ...

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to ...

The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither ...