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"Even Dwarfs Started Small," Calla replied immediately. "In the original German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen."Maura winced, though Blue couldn't tell if it was at ...

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

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 ...

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed ... it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed ...

Just two naked guys enjoying a manly hug in the middle of the apocalypse. - Cody Forester, Werewolf Apocalypse

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven ...

A supportive husband is an absolute requirement for professional women ... He is something she looks for, and when she finds him, she marries him.

I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving ...

When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.

She woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped ...

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or ...

Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven ...

Money & success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to ...

Sweetheart, insulting the spirits won't win them over. Most astrals aren't as masochistic as I am. - William Maddox

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure ...

Go into all the world and preach the gospel.' " Martha nodded slowly. "So the challenge is to do that without getting in the way ...

I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.

In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This ...

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without ...

Oh no, was I to be one of those girls who gets attacked by a jealous girlfriend?

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own ...

Encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri,

Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We ...

You should really think about buying another new tractor. I hear the current models have air conditioning and Wi-Fi.""What the fuck do we need Wi-Fi ...

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like ...

King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which ...

No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be.""Did ...

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, ...

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, ...

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no ...

In the preceding pages, to paraphrase the words of Auschwitz survivor, writer, and Nobel Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, we share Martin Small's personal journey not ...

I suppose I'll have to clean up Freddy's brains; I hate to leave a mess for the home owners. Hand me that plastic bag; I ...

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence ...

Nanotechnology experts are developing a bionic immune system composed of millions of nano-robots, who would inhabit our bodies, open blocked blood vessels, fight viruses and ...

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

The adults, though. They don't say much about him. Or to him. And no other Gungans come to see him, either. Nobody even says his ...

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

Allah sends down natural disasters to control population explosion. He encourages us to go to war, He creates Pakistan and Akhand Bharat. In doing this, ...

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come ...

And now I would like to give the blessing, but first - first I ask a favor of you: before the Bishop blesses his people, ...

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

In all seriousness, she said, If a phantom has an orgasm, is it a phantasm?

The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a ...

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is ...

And I loved her so much I couldn't conceive of ever parting from her; true, we never talked about marriage, but at least was asbolutely ...

Tove had blown the doors open with his abilities, and he stood on the other side of them, looking astonishigly bad ass.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

Every time you accept the claim that you can't change human nature or you have to accept the way the world is, you are accepting ...

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity ...

Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. ...

She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had ...

I thought that there is yet hope for someone who was caught in the river's whirlpool, but none exists for those who are trapped in ...

My breakfast is usually some oatmeal and berries and some agave, or a protein shake.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for ...

What's real? I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be.

The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact ...

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life ...

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

But sitting out tests that have proven essential in lifting the achievement of at-risk students is shortsighted, if not selfish.

I sat on cushioned otter-skin:My word was law from Ith to Emain,And shook at Invar AmarginThe hearts of the world-troubling seamen,And drove tumult and war ...

As soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else.

It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make ...

Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to ...

The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast!

We live in an anaesthetized society.

I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I ...

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them ...

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.

Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a ...

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's ...

Anyone can make you smile, some may make you cry but it takes someone really special to make you smile with tears in your eyes

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

What have you got against people?"Finn hated crowds. Thousands of people bumping and churning. "Too many opinions.

We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.

You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you ...

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

One must rather ask how much could be produced if competition among producers were abolished.

Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees."Best time of day," said Will.Yes," Horace agreed. "What's for breakfast?

Absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

What is about Army uniforms? Especially combats. They are just drool-worthy, if you ask me.

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. ...