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After identifying the scope of suffering, we need to discover its sources, which are twofold: afflictive, or counterproductive, emotions, and contaminated karmas.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Basically, when I was filming John Tucker the guy that I was seeing for two years was cheating on me. Sophia, Ashanti, and Arielle really ...

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with ...

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,every time.

I don't mind crack," I said. "I like crack as much as the next man. But it's not doing a thing for my nerves, and ...

Some older or very ill patients may not be suitable candidates for fecal transfer. Colonoscopy is an invasive procedure, especially for those patients who are ...

'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks ...

It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of ...

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must ...

Airport bars are more like film sets, the bathrooms reminiscent of dormitories. Everyone is waiting to go somewhere, suspended in nowhere ...

She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow ...

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more ...

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there ...

Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come ...

Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged ...

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere.

What are you?I opened my eyes gingerly. The flashlight that had blinded me was lying a few feet from my head now, which gave me ...

My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go ...

The bitch is dead now.

Sean Connery, in Vyshny Volochyokin the rain on a drizzly solo trek, said, "forgetting my sweater has made me much wetter. I certainly do miss ...

In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to ...

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the ...

We are not going to allow to a dictator who is sitting on us to determine the means of confrontation against him. We are not ...

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows ...

Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

David Anspaugh, who was my first director, on 'Rudy,' was all about empowering the actor, making you feel comfortable and appreciated, allowing you to keep ...

As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was ...

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti ...

Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents ...

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

Astyages had a daughter called Mandane, and he dreamed one night that she urinated in such enormous quantities that it filled his city and swamped ...

Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, ...

In my fairy tale, another year and a half has passed. I'm graduating with my English degree. And I ask you to marry me. What ...

Stanley went on, highly dangerous, fanatical and additictied to violence'- Blimey Fred, is it your mother writing this? They seem to know you so well

I am so sorry for you, Leslie.' She said it like she really meant it. But not like she was completely surprised. 'And for him. ...

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the ...

It wasn't a fear associated with physical injury, but the prospect of real pain. A world where love and trust and kindness and intimacy were ...

To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ ...

I can't ever lose what I just felt." He kissed my cheek. "I'm afraid if I did, I'd come looking for you too. I'm afraid ...

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I ...

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to ...

The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of ...

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

Don't be too funny, guys like funny but they don't want to marry a comedian, right? The guy is supposed to be the funny one.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.

Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my ...

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go ...

You asked for dark. I'm going to give it to you ... You are the violence inside of me, Aubree. My most exquisite destruction.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that ...

Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.

Pippi stroking his back. 'Bosh, that was a true fib,' she added. 'But if it was true, how could it be a fib? Perhaps when ...

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't remember all of ...

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in ...

If life has taught me anything it's to appreciate what you've got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized ...

We can be convicted of sin - we can pray and confess our sin - we can repent - but the real test is our ...

According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it ...

Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing ...

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

I'd always worried but kissing's not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anenomes know what to do. Kissing spins you, ...

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting ...

Well, if it isn't Daniel X himself," Seth said with a yawn. "Become tired of living in this dump of a city already, eh? What ...

Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be ...

I often heard the same question: What place does Russia reserve for itself in the world; how does it see itself; what is its place? ...

When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars ...

Not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

You should not look at what the person used to do, rather you should look at what kind of person they are today. The one ...

What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will ...

The letters a and l are the most common in Arabic, partly because of the definite article al-, whereas the letter j appears only a ...

Tonight, they'd make their stand, once and for all.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had ...

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an ...

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.

I'd leave, too, if I'd been held hostage against my ovaries for all that time. I'd have done more than just leave a few people ...

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They ...

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that ...

Mongers have been able to convince otherwise intelligent people that wrong is right, discrimination is appropriate, and division is unifying. It is among the most ...

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Homo sapiens," "homo faber" ... yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans.

Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the ...