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Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.
Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your ...
Louisiana has a larger alligator population than any other state. Just over a million." "Over a million!" exclaimed Amelia with astonishment.
I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I ...
The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. ...
They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down
Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.
Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or ...
Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their ...
Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), ...
I fell," he repeated for the hundredth time. "But you didn't fall very far," Mary Sarojini now said. "No, I didn't fall very far," he ...
Never forget the first three letters of confidence.
This, I thought, is why Bill and I had worked so hard for so many years to help build a better world - so Chelsea ...
And he paddled away in his douche canoe.
You don't hit on your best friend's love interest; it's an unspoken rule of friendship.
Money isn't everything. If anything it's a poison - Brackenbelly.
Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Some people would call me a workaholic. I don't consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it's my real hobby, OK? ...
I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And ...
For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and ...
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and ...
I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out ...
She never knew when she trespassed and when she fell in love with Huzaf. Perhaps this is the beauty of love, it doesn't knock. It ...
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
[Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.'[Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, ...
Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.
Oma says, when we were put on earth a really long time ago, each person came with a plant to heal all the troubles that ...
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
Beare with evill, and expect good.
He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on each ...
I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of ...
It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting ...
The events of my birth...and finally of my death are not accomplished in me or for me. The affective weight of my life as a ...
You areas fleetingly beautifulas a mother's tearsand a father's pranksa brother's bachelorhoodand a best friend's bad mooda bride's glittering jittersand a handsome stranger's smile.
The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these ...
You can't tell such stories about romantic infatuation from the point of view of the object of the infatuation without losing the flavor of the ...
The greatest source of rich knowledge and wisdom is found in the Bible.
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, ...
I have a jacket. Thank you". He smirked. "Not one that smells like me.
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There ...
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 ...
Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they ...
The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called ...
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked ...
It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.
What's your favourite position?""I usually play winger.""Zach, I adore you, but you can't make soccer jokes during phone sex. It just isn't done.
But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were ...
Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there ...
Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a ...
You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,Veiling beneath that radiant ...
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ...
I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such ...
I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I ...
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown ...
It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.
Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do.-Foalan to BrideiTalking about Broichan
I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine ...
You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
The relationship with WWE obviously has gotten better because after my name has been shoved down their throats from 2K [Games] for the past years, ...
Either love your players or get out of coaching.
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could ...
People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
You have a deep desire to be right all of the time and a deeper desire to see yourself in a positive light both morally ...
If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to ...
It's Life. It's the bumps and the bruises, the pain and the fear; it's messy and it's real and it's not some perfect little story ...
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without ...
Aliens - if they exist - are little green men with big eyes and spindly arms or ... or giant insects or something like a ...
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At ...
I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to ...
Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like ...
A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and ...
I could not break records; so I decided to shatter them.
I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us ...
For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.
In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.
In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you can't get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic ...
If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would ...
No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.
But you were a bad girl today, weren't you? Coming over here in your black lace panties telling me to fuck you.
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of ...
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly ...
Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in ...
Look at what you could have won.
Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate from those secret ...
I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.