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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, ...
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds of ...
In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and ...
Ladies were in the kitchen, industriously packing away into Tupperware containers what looked like it had until recently been a large spread of food.
Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.
You're probably thinking I owe you my life."[Chris]"No." she [Becca] snapped."Just sixty bucks.""You charge for the hero act?" [Chris]
Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a ...
It takes time to see anyone's real damage.
The Claudians," I observed, "are a family of insane hereditary criminals.
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm ...
Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain ...
I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.
We all have DNA, and it's nearly the same. In rhesus monkeys, we're close to 93 percent the same. In mice, it's closer to 90 ...
This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn't call a handbag a purse ... a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be ...
I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into ...
I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
Americans just don't understand dry wit.
The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? PROVERBS 20:24 NLT
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write ...
He had braces, sported a black Limp Bizkit Tshirt. Limp Bizkit is a band that was popular at the time. If you're fortunate, you've never ...
Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.
If you are emotionally connected to your goal and it truly inspires you, you are on the right track!
When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...
I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to ...
Face death, but choose life.
She wasn't gorgeous, wasn't ugly. A sprinkle of freckles crossed the bridge of her nose. Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, ...
She really did possess a love for humanity, and the further removed humanity was, both in space and time, the more she loved it.
Hey! D'you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet ...
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.
Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.
When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the ...
Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.
Everybody's got a story, Anna.
The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a ...
Don't focus on the what ifs. Focus on what is.
I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to ...
2017 is the Year of Jubilee! Receive its blessings in your spirit! Forgive and be forgiven. Reconcile and be reconcilable. Revival is due!
Well, imagine you are alone in a room....Are you the best, most special person in the room right now? Yes. That's the gift of being ...
That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours ...
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble.
Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going ...
I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house ...
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It's sort of a blog for people ...
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could ...
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the ...
You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the ...
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills ...
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.
Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person ...
Know Brooklynites who have never been to Radio City Music Hall.
She always said we were guests. Intruders. I believed her, but I didn't really consider it. This world was not ours. It hadn't been for ...
To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness ...
Don't judge me, I'm not a book.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
Reading is learning and for fun
No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It ...
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe ...
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the ...
Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
Don't do d right things for the wrong reasons
Corporate performance management systems and processes are gradually moving away from a static, unidirectional, and time-bound avatar to a more dynamic, continuous, and interactive state.
If a poem is concentrated, a closed fist, then a novel is relaxed and expansive, an open hand: it has roads, detours, destinations; a heart ...
...Devon wore the face of a stone Artemis.
She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.
No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life-Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key
Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he'd gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn't say you were one ...
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has ...
His eyes locked with mine, and I drowned in them. That was odd. I always thought you could only drown in water, never humans.
In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.
We were like the three Fates, weaving the story together, threads of gold, red, and midnight blue.
Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.
If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be ...
To leave a whisper of myself in the world, my ghost, a magna opera of words.
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
In the time of trouble just before the coming of Christ, the righteous will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels; but there will ...
How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.
Why, Tea Cake? Whut good do combin' mah hair do you? It's mah comfortable, not yourn." "It's mine too. Ah ain't been sleepin' so good ...
I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in ...
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
By non-action everything can be done.
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the darkSo soon, so soon.
As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in ...
Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.
When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a ...
Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.