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This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the ...
Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside ...
So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
There's something to be said about drinking a carafe of wine by yourself ... I just can't remember at the moment what it is! (said ...
You do not find the happy life. You make it.
I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.
How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.
When it comes to dress, we are supposedly free to wear whatever we want - but if this is the case, why do we wear ...
I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing ...
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
Cursing? Do you mean hunter?" It was her best guess, for Taiga had grimaced when she used it, as though the word hurt her to ...
There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in ...
Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with ...
She wasn't soft, but she never saw the sense of a living thing dying such a cruel death just for some woman's vanity. Still, she ...
Battered by the mind noise, huddled in the back with eyes closed and fists clenched, the old Melissa had understood pep rallies about as well ...
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for ...
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not ...
Out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then ...
To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and ...
Life's most wrenching choices are not between right and wrong but between competing demands on our time, our resources, our love and loyalty.
Hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever
The number one lesson I received from my father is to be responsible for yourself and your family. The responsibility you embrace is working, paying ...
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes ...
The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. ...
Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and ...
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country ...
Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter ... And which will you choose? For ...
A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will ...
I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs so we called ...
What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the ...
Better if you don't. Suffice it to say '123kitty' does not a strong password make. - House Rules
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my ...
As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly ...
The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas ...
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world ...
I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There ...
The room smelled of old cigarsmoke. He leaned and turned off the little brass lamp and sat in the dark. Through the front window he ...
Therefore, any attempt to build community on something more than the grace of Christ becomes a subtle move away from grace, a move toward pseudo-community ...
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
Alec put his hands up. "Okay, stop." The four vampires stared at him. "Horses? As in equine, My Little Pony, clippety-clop fucking horses?
If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into ...
I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the ...
A high quality life starts with a high quality you!
When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to ...
Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And ...
If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
The number of choirboys indecently assaulted annually by vicars and churchwardens may lead you to suppose that England is a deeply religious country. I
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.
Is this you trying to cheer me up?" "What are you ... going ... to do about it?" I asked. "Your Wussiness?" He touched his ...
There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch ...
The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you ...
You can't steal my joy because you didn't give it to me! Blessed.
A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.
Sentry: King, may I speak?Creon: Your very voice distresses me.Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?Creon: By God, he ...
Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood saints ...
When you give in to aversion and anger, it's as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your ...
Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.
By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing ...
Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood ...
Fate chooses your relations,you choose your friends.
CSETI (The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has in the past 18 months succeeded in intentionally establishing contact with extraterrestrial spacecraft, on two ...
He had put them [his family] first by coming home [to India] and the irony was that they had put him first by arranging this ...
Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret ... ...
I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And ...
For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over ...
Where are you anyway? (Acheron)I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a ...
I supposed images of an evil god who wanted to break free of his mythological prison and enslave the whole worldweren't any scarier than a ...
I'm definitely not non-chalant. I have to leave nonchalant at home when I'm working on something, otherwise I just don't feel like I'm committed, and ...
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a ...
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary ...
I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to ...
Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front ...
To escape responsibility for violence we imagine it is enough to pledge never to be the first to do violence. But no one ever sees ...
Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.
I love cookery programmes.
O Jesus, what a comfort it is that thou hast pleaded our cause against our unseen enemies; countermined their mines, and unmasked their ambushes. Here ...
The Cistercians do not eat meat ... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not ...
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.
I had very busy parents, but I really appreciated having a set of traditions during my own childhood, like consistently celebrating holidays at the same ...
We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.
In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you ...
I'm just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad. I'm just shy and nervous.
Funny how being in opposition to something tends to inspire tireless picketing and cleverly worded signs, while support rarely arouses that level of productivity.
More men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the ...
Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid ...
Date. There were two
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. ...
All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, ...
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea ...
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Why?" I whispered. "Why do you love me?" "God told me to," she said softly. "He told me that you were the one." "When?" "In ...
If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being ...
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United ...
I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live. ...
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
The cold goblin spring of the crocuses was past.The frail and chilly fairy spring of the daffodils was past.The springtime for mankind had arrived, and ...
A tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide ...