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Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries.
And behind the good doctor, his Wall of Hubris: I counted seven framed degrees, hung with care and pride and more than a little jackassedness. ...
Secrets always tend towards a domino effect, dividing and mutating and acquiring as they multiply the force of irresistible momentum. One soon learns to live ...
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 ...
As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no ...
Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum ...
For me to help him," said Dorothea, ardently. "You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have ...
But [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone's orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I ...
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds ...
My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat ...
Only when you can feel contempt for your own priceless little ego, only then can you achieve the true, broad peace of selflessness, the merging ...
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. ...
It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and ...
If this is love, no thanks. I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing. If ...
As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; ...
But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball ...
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The ...
Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.
$20 by Vanessa Place, the first product of VanessaPlace Inc., debuted on May 3, 2013 at Cage, NYC.The limited edition of $20, available for $50, ...
If you'll all just follow me over to our top sector here, I'll start your guided tour."Ellis got up, then followed Riley and Heather, who ...
I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. ...
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I ...
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 a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is ...
No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.
Dealing with drunks and hypes and homeless people who've got one foot in reality and the other in the Twilight Zone, you get used to ...
I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.
You never get possessed forever.. However painful and devastating the state/period is, you will get back to normal someday..
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? ...
I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.
Her midriff bare, like the denizen ... of some pampering seraglio.
There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was one that particularly ...
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to ...
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising ...
Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only ...
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.
Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. ...
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).
She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.
Art accepts what it finds.
After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral ...
I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than ...
I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, ...
As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on ...
The sense of being two men - one bent on desperate measures, the other already in the numb of mourning - felt like the last ...
What draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.
False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
Gray was two people from different worlds coming together unexpectedly and creating something new. Gray took the best parts of us both and fit them ...
Don't worry about being nervous. A lot of vampires have trouble with this from time to time. It happens to everyone.""If I was a forty-year-old ...
I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that ... All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is ...
Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.
I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?""Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the ...
Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?""I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.
I inherited her.I preyed on her.I owned her life and had the piece of paper to prove it.Nila Weaver. Mine.And my task ... .. ... ...
I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.
Once upon a time, people thought earth was flat-shaped.Now I'm ready to perceive universe won't be as we think.
Because ultimately only the witness and not the actors knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) ...
It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a Senior National Champ. I was Junior ...
Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously ...
All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman
Ten thousand years to plan the eradication of humans from Earth and this is the best they can come up with? That's
Broken glass. At the moment, we were barefoot and dancing over a sea of it. But as true as that was, Mickey knew I would ...
There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians ... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy ...
Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills surrounded by trees, and ...
Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)
Oh God, this is so good, Princess, what is it?""Dark and stormy," she sighs. "And you may as well take the bowl. I can't use ...
That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the ...
On the top of the batting list we have pinned our hopes on the Dilshan-Thirima nne combination as they have been putting the runs on ...
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.
They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don't see a differencebetween our loveand their love.
One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.
I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing ...
The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.
A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh ...
I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so ... subjective!
You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
I don't know the pain she's speaking from, but I know it's deep. It makes her hard and yet so terribly soft. It's her thorns ...
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that ...
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does ...
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to ...
The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.
Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with ...
I HAVE A HEARTBURN AND DIAHREA AT THE MOMENTLIFE'S ABITCH. CHAT LATER?[signed] SORE TUSH
I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience - or rather to become itself experience ...
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within ...
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, ...
Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and ...
In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that ...