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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the ...
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such ...
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price ...
You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it.
Thank you," I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.""You want to thank me, Barrow?" she mutters, kicking ...
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.
I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the ...
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.
There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.
You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard ...
Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of ...
Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.
You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get ...
I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddleof fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracingthe surprises of each ...
If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.
I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.
Also, the wizard's response to having a skeletal deer leap in front of him and a bruised and whimpering elf fall off its back was ...
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much ...
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do ...
I always start a movie by being very firm and very hard and very, very serious, and then I can relax a little more once ...
But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, ...
Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw outwhat you can't throw out buryWhat you can't bury give awaywhat you can't give away you ...
In America, millions of dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters every year become the food for our food (twice as many such animals are ...
No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened
I didn't care that we'd caught a few stares from students passing by. I didn't care that the bell to begin class rang. I didn't ...
Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.
When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed ...
Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun ...
I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in ...
There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, ...
The sons of Dior and Nimloth were Elured and Elurin; and a daughter also was born to them, and she was named Elwing, which is ...
Control yourself and no one elseAnd you willsee the Truth my brother
Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people chose to use ...
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself ...
Gossip is nature's telephone.
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can ...
Living Life without a Purpose is like having an Ice cream cone in your hand, letting it melt and drip without eating it. It was ...
One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar ...
Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it.
Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?
They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it ...
A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She ...
Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.
If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.
In life, every step you take is an adventure. Never fear to venture and never forget to enjoy.
Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ...
She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty ...
I have heard it from the mouths of the Edema Ruh, so I know it to be true.
Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?Who is the Yogi, Namaste?
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educereto lead, ...
To herself and wiping tears from her eyes, which turned
I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to ...
Get you dead ass out of the sarcophagus and follow along," Tern muttered. "And no yelling for guards, and no continuing forward when we stop ...
A Millionaire becomes richer not when he earns his next Million but when he spends it on a Noble Cause.-RVM
So, we experience life in terms of changes, we feel diminishing sensitivity to both gains and losses, and losses sting more than equivalently-sized gains feel ...
Diplomatic," Barabas said. "Fuck diplomatic.
I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably ...
Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.
For others, in spite of myself, from myself.
Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here ... it's likesay pure ...
Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians ... lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from ...
My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese ...
The mind becomes like that on which it feeds.
Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak ...
You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If ...
I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph ...
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!
The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life ...
A eugoogoolizer ... one who speaks at funerals ... Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - ...
We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest ...
I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and ...
What is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark?
In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to ...
Was that the sum total of my exsitence? I didn't get the erudition of 'I think therefore I am.' Instead I got 'I am, therefore ...
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much ...
The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is ...
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
Q: What do peanut butter and hookers have in common? A: Both spread for bread.
The moon, serene and detached in a cloudless sky, did what she could, though so far off, to help them in their quest; till her ...
Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or ...
I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell ...