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Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinogens in cooked meat. For unknown reasons, these carcinogens build ...

Sorry I gave you a fright." Howl seemed more used to holding babies than Sophie was. He rocked Morgan soothingly and stared at him. Morgan ...

Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if ...

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the ...

The restaurant business is robust and successful precisely because individual restaurants are vulnerable and short-lived. Taleb wishes that society honoured ruined entrepreneurs as richly as ...

We light the candle and ask the Lord Jehovah to illuminate the week ahead. We sprinkle spices into the flame and remind ourselves that the ...

The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth ...

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

The life of a visual communicator should be one of systematic and exciting intellectual chaos.

Thank you for lending me the use of your maid. I tragically lost my lady-in-waiting on our journey and found Cosme's presence such a comfort.

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no ...

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or ...

Yep. I rub my chin as I formulate a plan, and moments

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you ...

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm ...

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemised words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted ...

I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; ...

I am really proud to HAVE been an Arsenal player.

Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera ...

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world ...

You need good training partners - because you're only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

The separation of "church and state" of which America is so proud was established in Islam fourteen centuries ago, when it was decided that no ...

Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you!

Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are ...

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to ...

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training ...

No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee

There is nothing like the time we have with those we love the most. Every moment is precious because we aren't promised tomorrow. Hold on ...

In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply ...

The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the ...

Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] ...

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London ... or ...

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To ...

Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they ...

The Christian church is losing its grasp on heaven and hell.

You almost can't wait too long to get married. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your ...

A clear picture of that which God wants for us is rarely clearly articulated".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but ...

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who ...

Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from ...

Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.

No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.

The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you'll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.

To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, ...

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the ...

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a ...

The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed ...

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. (p. 3) It immediately sets a mood of hardship and confusion and starts right in with the ...

You belong at Camp Jupiter. That sounded so ridiculous, Hazel almost laughed. She didn't belong in this place. She didn't even belong in this century.

Outward change comes after we change from within

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,Is blind and sinister. Its craving is setToday on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it canHowl ...

There's no downside to having too much experience.

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold ...

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

There's more than one way to die ... A heart can still beat when it's broken.BrooksConcilium Series #1

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want ...

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights ...

People underestimate the freckled.

Malcolm looked like the perfect battlefield commander, except for the fact that he'd forgotten his pants. His red briefs made quite a statement with his ...

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in ...

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of ...

I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

They say that guys who like chick flicks tend to do a little better with the ladies. Well, I INVENTED the chick flick, so you ...

The mother has to have enough food in order to produce enough milk in order to breast feed, but she has to know that she ...

[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of ...

Cayse you left a jagged hole.And I can' stand it any more.

A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.

I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a ...

The counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for ...

They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine

Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.

The two best things you can do for a person is have sex or make them laugh.

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If ...

Don't make a wish you aren't willing to come true. Don't dream a dream you aren't willing to pursue. Don't love a man you can't ...

I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its ...

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to ...

Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary ...