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Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained without ...

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another ...

John Taylor Gatto's extraordinary book, Dumbing Us Down. Check out Mary Griffith's The Unschooling Handbook and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Take a look ...

Stand for Him, Druet; even if all others in this kingdom stand against Him.

The word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always ...

My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, ...

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are-Sirious Black, ...

Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as deadtoo afraid to live, ...

When I came off the phone, I told Stewart about the hot tub. He laughed. 'Well, at least we've got our dookers with us.

We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; ...

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, ...

Fallen flowers can't climb back. If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past. Just love ...

He gave the first modern-day description of the condition in children in a lecture at a London hospital in 1887, noting, "If the patient can ...

Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic ...

The more you know about how things are the less you know about how things could be.

Aschenbach is not only a projection of Mann in the obvious ways - same daily routines, author of the works Mann had planned - nor ...

There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, ...

He is hotter than a zombie cooked in a dippsy dumpster with kerosene.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all ...

Suffering - how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we ...

Safin - "I can disembark with you at Starlight Rock, and together we can return to my great treasure!"He was so convinced I could save ...

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. ...

The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up ...

You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want ...

Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it ...

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the ...

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect ...

Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the ...

You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle ...

We live in an epoch of denudation.

Never Forget what someone says to you when they are drunk. Because Drunk words are Sober Thoughts

At their time of life they should be wearing trouser suits and baking cakes, maybe spending their days penning hand-written letters of complaint to newspapers. ...

I think the thing with fame is that everybody claims they all want your best. They all know what's good for you and you end ...

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as ...

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock ...

Boy," said Druss, his eyes cold, "think well about this venture. For make no mistake, you cannotstand before me and live. No man ever has." ...

Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the ...

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the ...

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette through one of ...

Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become ...

Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to ...

What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs ...

I make some jokes about it, but they're not funny and just add to the depression.

Behind them the solemn-faced warriors stood, engraved into the vast double doors of the mansion. In front of them, the fountain lay broken into three ...

I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible." "Did you kick their butts?" He frowned. "The buttocks are among the least ...

Duryodhana tells Dronacharya7 that his own pupil, Dhrishtadyumna8 has planned the deployment (on the Pandava side). They are, on both sides, his pupils, to whom ...

Skulduggery," the tall man said eventually, his voice deep and resonant, "trouble follows in your wake, doesn't it?""I wouldn't say follows," Skulduggery answered. "It more ...

This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my ...

You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. ...

Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

Oh, Kali, my mother full of bliss! Enchantress of the almighty Shiva, in thy delirious joy thou dancest, clapping thy hands together. Thou art the ...

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.[Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara ...

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting ...

I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something ...

Good ideas in psychology usually have an oddly familiar quality, and the moment we encounter them we feel certain that we once came close to ...

It's like I'm on a roller-coaster ride, but I'm not allowed to get off. I'm strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl ...

What is a memory anyway but a painful dispute with the past?

It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just ...

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny ...

And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to ...

She glanced at the papers he'd been working on. Black and white. He wouldn't see the shades of gray she saw there. The man they ...

A MILLION THOUGHTS POUR THROUGH MY HEAD, BUT LIKE HER, I STAY SILENT. THERE'S SIMPLY NOTHING TO SAY.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, ...

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

The person who is least dependent on the outcome of the relationship will automatically draw the other person in.

Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?""Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know ...

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

Without wonder, you are dead and I am older. The girl in the mirror looks devastated. Like someone really has pushed a brick through her ...

Tessa Herondale Carstairs," he whispered. "You should never worry about borrowing my name when you know that you can have it to keep.

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

A wrongheaded world," sighed Shiloh Davydov, "where women needs must deny their gender for fear that their ideas will be dismissed.

I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime, we don't want ...

It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After ...

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").

Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light ...

Don't you growl at me White Fang, I'll have you neutered and de-clawed so fast you won't know what hit you,

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be ...

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, ...

An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of a ...

Donnez-moi la main! I see we worship the same God, in the same spirit, though by different rites.

To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you're going or backward at where you've been. When ...

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

People travel and hunt on the sea ice - in Alaska, they hunt in skin boats for bowhead whales; in Greenland, they hunt with dogsleds. ...

I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I ...

He reaches for the sword. I step back, not wanting to hand it over.'What are you going to do, fight me for her?' he asks. ...

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform ...

The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end ...