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A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is ...

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

I felt angry and silly in that feather-itch dress. I felt alone. But one always is, I suppose.

Don't forget that fruit can be cooked - think of baked apples, poached pears and grilled pineapple. But if you like drinking fruit, blending will ...

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense ...

The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who ...

Suddenly I was cocooned in silent,blissful darkness,with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was.

You must mark in these things obviously. It's the fact you want to emphasise, not the subjective impression to record. What's the fact? - red ...

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and ...

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows ...

Don't worry," said Swires. "The old witch hasn't been seen for years. They say she was done up good and proper by a couple of ...

The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."

I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments ...

At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it takes a lot ...

They're like the ... what is it? The League of Assassins in Arrow!

There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and ...

Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the "mystery of ...

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Thomas Fuller

Inaction breeds fear and doubt. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go ...

Now What?" Kerensky said. "We wait," Dahl said. "For how long?" Kerensky said, " As long as dramatically appropriate," Dahl said.

To ACCEND (ACCE'ND) v.a.[accendo, Lat.]To kindle, to set on fire; a word very rarely used. Our devotion, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up ...

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of ...

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came ...

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the ...

There's a difference somewhere. Being a supreme egotist Ardita frequently

A crash. Books fall to the speckled linoleum floor. They

Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.

Third Covenant "monosacredness" is not a break with the earlier covenants; it transcends and includes them all.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it ...

To Annawadians, a difficult-to-raze house increased the odds that a family's tenure on airport land would be acknowledged by the relocation authorities. And so they ...

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, ...

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away ...

America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even ...

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

The killing of dangerous Rioters, by any private Persons, who cannot otherwise suppress them, or defend themselves from Them, inasmuch as every private Person seems ...

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for ...

Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune ...

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

An image of Sydney's face appeared in my mind's eye, calm and lovely.I believe in you.My anxiety faded.I took a deep breath and met the ...

Aylin had gotten under his skin, and for all his experience fighting enemies, he had no defense against a female whose strength humbled him, whose ...

It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come ...

A king should never sit easy, Aegon the Conqueror had said, when he commanded his armorers to forge a great seat from the swords laid ...

The Wookiee gambit.' he said with a smile. I didn't have a clue what he was talking about, but somewhere in my head a distant ...

An angel fighting through the darkness or a devil breaking into the light?

This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the ...

Why is it that when people die, we make such an effort to turn them into saints? Especially when the entire reason we loved them ...

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this ...

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, ...

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure ...

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by ...

Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.

Astonished-looking eyes.

On the square ... I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the ...

Once we deny a Higher Intelligence that plans and administrates our individual hereafters we are bound to accept the unspeakably dreadful notion of Chance reaching ...

Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is ...

Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.

Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.

God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see ...

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take ...

As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in ...

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally ...

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

Things ain't never gone change in this town , Aibileen. We living in hell. Our kids is trapped.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her ...

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that ...

The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his ...

I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to ...

It makes me really proud to be an Argentinean, to have the pope be Argentinian. Pope Francis has been incredible. My mother used to know ...

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have ...

I stopped avoiding the articles and the scientific studies and read everything I could find. I also stopped outsourcing the problem to the environmentalists, stopped ...

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

I think the best way people can connect to you is by being real

You go away and have a nice cup of hot tea,' said the agent, soothingly, 'and you'll be as right as anything in the morning.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region ...

To finally meet Alayna's eyes. Though I'm torn and uncertain, there is one truth that does not waver - I am in love with Alayna ...

Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see ...

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of ...

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I ...

A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water. And while it's ...

Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness ...

We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are ...

In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every ...

And in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, ...

We aim for the higher calling of God.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.