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It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely ...

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all ...

Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a ...

Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself..

Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?

I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or pirates. But I ...

Confucious and the Madman (excerpt)The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down!The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it.Every man knows how useful ...

Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. ...

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell ... say hello for me ...

Self-justification, that was the danger the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we ...

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

The road to Emmaus is this world.

The way other people fantasize about surprise inheritances, firts-glance love, and endless white empyreal pastures, Mitchell dreamed of an erupting supervolcano that would bury North ...

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want ...

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria ...

The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is. ...

He'd probably just crawl in the corner and starve. Like a hamster you forgot to feed.

The more your appreciate yourself the more you will have the energy from within.Stop sourcing for external energry source to charge yourself. Seek the light ...

Love can make you either "Live your life!" or "Leave your life!".

A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.

The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the ...

If perception is stronger then reality why don't we just perceive to have a good day.

Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured.

And Belle? She was an odd girl who liked to read.

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta ...

I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud ...

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, ...

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the ...

It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not even afraid of death itself. It's ...

In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can ...

The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list ...

I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top ...

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to ...

All this she must possess, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. ...

I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests ...

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!

Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit crimes against even ...

If you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then ...

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense ...

Pilates makes you feel good because you're doing something that's good for your body, and you start seeing it. It elongates the muscles.

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then ...

There was a young lady of Lynn. Who was so uncommonly thin That when she essayed To drink lemonade, She slipped through the straw and ...

Sometimes you meet a girl and it's like matter and antimatter. You just hate each other for no damn reason.

That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; ...

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, ...

There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the ...

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to ...

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who ...

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something ...

Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, ...

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist ...

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

I need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and ...

Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan's words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he'd said. Love was sacrifice.

I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.

I sought a third wand, Severus. The Elder Wand, the Wand of Destiny, the Deathstick. I took it from its previous master. I took it ...

There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced ...

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to ...

There's a universe swirling inside you. you have to learn to be your own earth, wind, fire and water. you are a natural phenomenon - ...

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much ...

Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to ...

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able ...

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread ...

My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing ...

Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during the floods on ...

Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of ...

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in ...

And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts. I might always feel some form of this, a ...

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards ...

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once ...

Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat ...

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, ...

Walking around the streets with our dog is what we did all the time in Washington. Making friends with new people is something we did ...

It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

Dancers who were on the birth control pill - which essentially eliminates estrus - made about $193 per shift, also far less than ovulating women.

The effectance motive helps explain the progress principle: We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, ...

For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it ...

Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store ...

I want the shining gravel in a dark brook. I want the sparkle of the stone beneath the rays of sun, I want death that ...

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take ...