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More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This ...
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. ...
Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.
The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my ...
I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together ...
He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to ...
We grow old not by the number of our years, but by not numbering our years - not living our dreams, not enjoying the everyday ...
An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)
In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of ...
Unsettling because it reveals some possible branch of evolution in which sex organs will no longer exist. The bots won't need them, and perhaps without ...
The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts ...
Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.
The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested ...
Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so ...
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our ...
Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that's ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its ...
What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I ...
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty ...
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.
You - my life - my All - farewell.Oh, go on loving me - never doubtthe faithfullest heartOf your belovedLEver thineEver mineEver ours.
I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I ...
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less ...
The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.
It can happen to anybody, getting all hung up on some twenty-year-old quiff. Like the little dog in the freight yard, and the train nips ...
She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you ...
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and ...
A duel would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen, they're too easy to lose. ...
I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac ...
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because ...
Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone ...
By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rob ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See ...
Eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.
Things were about to change. If nothing changed, I wouldn't be writing this down because this is a book about the time when everything changed. ...
Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.
I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read ...
The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.
Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.
Her whole face twisted in agony and one tear fell from the corner of her eye, and I wanted to die right there. I wanted ...
Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't ...
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let ...
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness ...
In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where ...
I'm doing mental training as well. So, you know, body, mind, and spirit - everything is being addressed, every single day. Generally I'll have three ...
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
But there is always creative destruction in markets: there are always new winners taking the place of those that are. So if you only look ...
When it comes to the college essay, feel free to break some rules. Many still apply, of course: you need to watch your grammar and ...
But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, ...
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY "NO
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding ...
If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult ...
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to ...
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I ...
An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be ...
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and ...
You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to ...
Are you afraid the Ender Dragon is coming after you?" Lucy joked. "I'm looking at the moon," Steve said quite seriously. "I think I want ...
Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts ...
As far as exercising goes ... watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come ...
I think - I'm always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by - not by just standing on a - randomly on a ...
So this little boy wasI became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but it left me ...
And in history I found that Christianity, so far from belonging to the Dark Ages, was the one path across the Dark Ages that was ...
I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. ...
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall downand break ...
But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic ...
It is our faith in Jesus Christ that sustains us at the crossroads of life's journey.
...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment - all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of ...
Without seasons the human body seems to disagree with how it perceives the world, feels as if what's missing is the feeling & wants to ...
So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, ...
I'm from the South - I love to eat, and that's why I have to exercise.
Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar.
But for the love of piss, make some sort of decision. If you don't want to eat babies and nail bloodbags to walls, that's your ...
My eyes locked on his and I seemed to get caught in his gaze. We didn't speak, I just looked at his handsome face and ...
Love is how you earn your wings.
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's ...
I always assume people are hiding parts of themselves from each other. People do that.
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright ...
You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...
America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost emotionally, ...
People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that ...
It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy ...
It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading ...
The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which ...
I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the ...
Every day and every night, I dance with Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad & all personal Gods: Krishna, Shiva & Buddha. You are welcome too !
She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not ...
I might not be all that good with mathematics in class; but go into my mind; and you will see that type of mathematic I ...