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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing ...
If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into ...
You figure you'll cool it on the time travel for a while. Don't want to see the Dave corpses start to pile up. Especially if ...
Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;For in their speech is death, hell in ...
It's a pity that Rob has our Lynburn knives," Lillian said. "But any knife can be cursed or blessed.""Right, but can any knife be disinfected?" ...
My entire life has been one big, fat whopper of a lie, and my parents betrayed me in the worst possible way. I don't care ...
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place ...
It was only a remote portion of his mind that heard and answered the girl. The rest of him was soaking up her beauty with ...
Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, ...
SCARED TO DEATH In Arizona, a 1000-acre forest of junipers suddenly withered and died. Foresters are unable to explain it, but the Indians say the ...
I don't know who I am. I look at myself and I see Stephen Herondale, but I act like a Lightwood and talk like my ...
There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you ...
The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly ...
I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, ...
That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've ...
I never had a great role in a great film.
It is a great blow to the ego, Sssergeant, to dissscover that you are, after all, not unique." He looked up, his tongue flickering. "I ...
Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as ...
I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the ...
Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.
Its easy to have kids, people try to scare you into thinking "oh its hard to have kids" Its not. I have two, and I ...
But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.
I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you ...
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test ...
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
There's one thing I want you to do for me.""Anything." He pleaded."When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. ...
We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that ...
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the ...
There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn't slept, either. She was still wearing the same ...
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and ...
You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not ...
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
For what it's worth, charting one's passion in a small daybook kept hidden in a hatbox inside a wardrobe does not subdue passion in the ...
The CEO of Monsanto had been disemboweled alive.
It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
What a diva!""Stupid, men can't be divas ... ""Divo, then.""That just sounds weird. Call him a jerk and be done with it.
There will be no takin' this back, lass. Doona even think to be tellin' me later that you willna hae me. You will hae me.
Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.
Demanding what we want ignores the other person's sense of control and they will want to resist us.
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you ...
You can handcuff my wrists, and Shackle my feet. You can bind me in chains, throw me in your deepest darkest dungeon...but you can't enslave ...
We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.
Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be ...
We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor - a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get ...
We're instant ambassadors. Just add robot body and voila! If they'd told us anything real, they might have had to kill us.
I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like, "Hey, how's that ...
I'll see you in Dreamland.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.
Ben: 'Just...finish it.'Caedus: 'Finish it? Ben, we're just getting started.'--Ben Skywalker and Darth Caedus
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
In every good man a God doth dwell.
Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here ... in America, owing to our ...
Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let ...
The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do ...
Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].
One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one ...
The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to ...
Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then ... thinking there ...
Luke's left side was bloody. His eyes were open - blue eyes, the way they used to be. His breath was a deep rattle. "Good ...
It's only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it's totality, that we realize that love is ...
None of sin makes you better, sin always makes you get worse
Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.
Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to ...
He's so awful. He's ... he's like ammonium dichromate with mercury thiocyanate. He's the college boy equivalent of the bowels of hell
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the ...
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. ...
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through ...
Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes.
To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
Why do women love The Princess Bride so much? Here's a thought: because its hero, Westley, is able to simultaneously fill the roles of dashing ...
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that ...
It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get ...
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself ...
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that can significantly alter the maternal and in utero environment, leading to complications. Optimizing
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them ...
I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor ...
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? Well, behind our soul there's just more ...
It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue." ... The hint of amusement irritated ...
I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any ...
Back in the '60s and '70s, data were scarce, and while analysts knew that companies with fat gross margins lagged those with thin gross margins ...
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Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can't talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date
That's the girl you complain about driving home with every weekend? That's the girl youwhine endlessly about walking in on you when you're acting the ...
I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, ...
When you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not ...
Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do ...
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west that cloud field of the sky to arm themselves ...
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. ...
Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your ...