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There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.
Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that ...
If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, ...
No one wants a reputation as 'the reason the High Prince of Etheria died of heart failure.
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the ...
Mother is the home we come from.She is nature, soil, ocean.
My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does ...
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in ...
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.
I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.
One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in ...
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
I think the biggest thing for me now is that I have a better understanding of what to expect as far as things go and ...
Be not spendthrift of your honesty, But keep it to yourself
Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians ...
You've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.
It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on ...
You can never quench the desires of the greedy.Do not attempt to quench the desires of the lustful.
The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, ...
The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is ...
I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to ...
Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.
His voice was friendly enough, but his gaze drilled into Mercy, an obvious challenge. Cute, Mercy thought. Not impressed, asshole.
If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Haha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa for instance,I ...
A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.
I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half ...
Good PoemSit,lay down,roll over,here'syour treat.
Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all ...
Funny thing about life is that it never turns out the way you want it to.
Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all ...
All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all ...
I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?
Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum.
We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
He and all his race showed small and ephemeral against the background of such immeasurable fullness.
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was ...
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic ...
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. ...
One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to ...
What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.
Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the placeWhere the banished poet has goneAnd the night that comes with quickened paceIs ignorant of dawn.
Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to ...
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough ... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.
Bidding for the first torment starts at fifty thousand dollars with increments of five thousand. Gentlemen, what is your pleasure?
This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all ...
It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of ...
Purer colors ... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at ...
The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.
Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.
What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental ...
Now, on the other hand, if we booted all the men out of corporate America, and we had all women there, quite honestly I think ...
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it ...
The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in ...
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
What if your advisor talks only about returns, not risk? ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of ...
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.
Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience.
I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this ...
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food ...
So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
Lying to you would be a mistreatment of what that love means.
Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined ...
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
A glass table nearby, with magazines carefully fanned out across it.
Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are ...
Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is ...
Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that he ...
My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.
What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.
Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.
I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also ...
Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good ...
Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.
Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.
We're all sinners, m'boy. Some of us just enjoy it more than others.
No one messes with my best friend.""Best friend, eh?" "You're my only friend, Jess. You win the best title by default.
One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy ...
The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as ...
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His ...
You have two choices in life; either to be a pick or you chose to be a whale
Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you're flying into ... the Roland Zone!
Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.
I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right ...
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