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Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram ...
A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.
Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
Whoever controls the money, controls you!
The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss ...
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
You are a very special child," the old handmaid said, stroking Eleonora's hair. "You know that don't you?"Eleonora mumbled a yes."You know you are special, ...
The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of ...
The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.
For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all ...
If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is ...
And in the end, any lie is a hurt that burns and sometimes that burn can kill."-Tyra "Red" Masters
For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings because ...
I have always enjoyed cemeteries. Altars for the living as well as resting places for the dead, they are entryways, I think, to any town ...
A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives ...
What's amazing to me? General Electric has a bigger budget for - special interest budget than all of the oil companies combined, and yet nobody ...
I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1
You know the Everneath?""Uh, yeah, I think I'm familiar with it.""Good. Because I'm going to destroy it. I'm taking the whole. Damn. Thing. Down. Are ...
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that ...
People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got ...
A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies.
Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s ...
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to ...
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored ...
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can ...
'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. ...
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the ...
Because the birdsong might be pretty,But it's not for you they sing,And if you think my winter is too cold,You don't deserve my spring.
Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.
Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses ...
Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).
After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever ...
I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a ...
I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.
Don't expect too much from others because people behave according to their perspective, not yours. Accept people as they are and avoid controlling them, only ...
The reason God commands us to love Him with all our heart is not because He is an egomaniac! It is because He knows that ...
Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried ...
That was the strength of Ellysetta's weave. Bright, unyielding,indefatigable love. Love that did not know surrender. Love that did not understand limitations or even basic ...
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's ...
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others ...
It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.
We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened topossibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. ...
We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King ...
[R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, "I don't know," and then experimenting with relaxing a bit ...
In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, ...
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
What are you watching?"One shoulder rose in a shrug. "Looks like an informercial for music of the eighties. Thinking about buying it.
The door opens and he stands in the doorway, my handsome, psychopathic husband.
I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake ... you get to a certain point in your career where you ...
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without ...
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Feel a pleasurable superiority, and are full of secret insight and penetration,-it
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ...
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade ...
There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things ...
Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down ...
Mere flight in a dream you say. In dream many desires are revealed; and desire may be the last flicker of Estel.
He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.
I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.
This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.
Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social principle
I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being ...
To be truly effective at content marketing, we need to excel at promotion.
I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above ...
I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless ... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate ...
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.
You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
She was almost there. She could feel the weight of herself, the ponderousness of her body, the distant memories of the dawn of time when ...
The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who ...
Grace headed in desperation for the coffeemaker. Apparently it was going to be one of those mornings. Funny how often those happened after a short ...
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player ...
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. ...
People never show their true colors when everything is fine. It's when everything goes to shit that you see what a person is really made ...
Avoid any exercises that may produce injuries.
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
So Achmed if you've been in my suitcase this entire time how have you been getting through security? Oh thats easy they open the suitcase ...
Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds in ...
Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind ...
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. ...
Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning; and the opinions so formed by one ...
Every girl wants a bad boy who is only good to her
There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what ...
If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a ...
Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.
Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? ...
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
Do not stand still for injustice. If you know something isn't right, find your strength and stand against it.