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When we agree to meet with friends, have drinks, dinner, and watch a movie on a Friday evening, we incur coordination costs. All the emails, ...

Bast stood in the doorway, practically dancing with irritation. When he spotted the approaching figure he rushed down the street, waving a piece of paper ...

Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.

It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to ...

The two of them made a striking combo, one dark and one golden, both utterly fearless in the face of this danger. They were beautiful ...

The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.

I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know.

Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too.

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary ...

But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I ...

Dissociative parts of the personality are not actually separate identities or personalities in one body, but rather parts of a single individual that are not ...

Women are very clear andtransparent, anyone can read them,they don't play 'hide and seek'like men. #LIFE OF LOVE

I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want ...

I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship,

You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty ...

I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be ...

I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn't want to show that stuff on the sideline.

We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by ...

Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, ...

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.[Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.Jam veniet tacito curva ...

I've never thought about the ages of my readers.

If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect ...

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in ...

The furniture would have missed you?Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't ...

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

Dermatology ... this young daughter of medicine ...

He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins.

There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we ...

He says he is starting a school here, and not just any school, but "the best of the best." He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, ...

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.

I used to think there was something up with any female that liked me, I mean, if she didni get bored with my company, there ...

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. ...

I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's ...

Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A veteran of Omaha ...

The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections ...

Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what ...

I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my ...

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden ...

It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. ...

A memory, long buried, sprang up of her father warning her never to cross the stream and go into the forest."The Dragonwood," she mumbled.How could ...

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, ...

How we live is all that matters,not who made us,or out of what parts!Free will is what we make of it!

Remember babe, hurting people hurt people. And that doesn't make it right, and it won't ever make it okay. I just don't want to see ...

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. ...

Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but ...

Be not dishearten'd Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your ...

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that ...

What the fuck is "purple rain"? It's doggerel, that's what; nobody has the foggiest idea what purple rain is.

Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the ...

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.

When God leads you to it, He will give it to you.

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

I didn't answer. Mr. Dowater had a reputation for deadpan humor, a humor that was strangely similar to the low-level, sarcastic sniper fire offered by ...

The sun beasts the shit out of a dirty road called Raton Pass where the closest thing to a pair of matching earring is a ...

Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.

Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change ...

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

Today there could be laughter and freedom, but soon the magic would end and they would have to go back to the real world. However, ...

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so ...

Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not ...

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, ...

We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite show. And I ...

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

A bored Gwenvael is an entire towndestroyed accidently.

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad ...

And in the incendiary wake of Michael Brown's and Eric Garner's deaths at the hands of white police officers in the summer of 2014, a ...

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll ...

My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

Learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest,

When they can hear each other over the wind and the music, they speak Connecticut: I will not Stamford this type of behavior. What's Groton ...

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and ...

What are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?

Do you still want me to go to hell? I must admit, I don't know the way.

Dessie was not beautiful. Perhaps she wasn't even pretty, but she had the glow that makes men follow a woman in the hope of reflecting ...

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it ...

Inevera raised an eyebrow. "You suggest I mislead the council of Damaji about what I see in the sacred dice?" Abban smiled. "Damajah, please. Do ...

Well, fab-dabby-dozy to that!

You can rattle the stars, you can do anything, if only you dared.

Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly ...

Now I appreciate that for those of you who have stayed with me this far, there's nothing too surprising about this romantic development. You probably ...