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Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.
There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's ...
Hell's no proof of heaven.
From the reign of Emperor Constantine to the present, the Christian notion that sexual love brings spiritual death has been the cornerstone of Western sex ...
Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.
Is it that the moment I live for myself, everyone around me becomes miserable, but when I try to live for others, I become miserable? ...
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds - all reasoning and disputing - ...
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is ...
But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.
He had pulled too many rabbits from too many hats; insanity had claimed him.
Fortunately, in Bolivia, we have begun to liberate ourselves economically. If we do not accompany social and cultural liberation with economic liberalization, the country will ...
The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him ...
I don't think it's right to congratulate someone for having an ugly baby. It will only encourage her to have another one.
One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by ...
I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you ...
I'll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before ...
There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing ...
The Senate cannot confirm an individual ... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.
Capitalism will make the transition relatively easy, since it has already expropriated all private property into its own hands. All that is now necessary is ...
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - ...
Yesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally ...
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And ...
The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is ...
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. ...
Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot ...
Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support ...
To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.
I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while ...
I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction ...
Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.
I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it ...
Ellory erecius is very cool!!!2
Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.
Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school for work, I ...
Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to ...
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
There is simply something wrong with my conscience. I do try to wrestle with the devil as I ought, but, like Eve, even when tempted ...
Each time it goes around a little bit, a second goes away.""Where?" I asked, as the pendulum swung again. And again.He winked at me. "It ...
Keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can't be held together forever - ...
I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic ...
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, ...
It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's ...
Moreover, if we could show, on general logical grounds, that the scientific quest is likely to succeed, one could not understand why anything like success ...
But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore ...
I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.
A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The ...
From Love Under a Dark Sky: In the universe vastWe share a simple feastAmong creatures equally earthbound.Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,Our eyes in ...
I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall ...
The Kingdom of Heaven runs on righteousness, but the Kingdom of Earth runs on oil. ERNEST BEVIN, CHURCHILL'S MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE London,
Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me ... If I must not, because of my sex, have this ...
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that ...
What an indictment that is, of the Ivy League and its peers: that colleges four levels down on the academic totem pole, enrolling students whose ...
Kids in aprons appeared, putting tureens of vegetable soup on the tables and plates of boiled eggs, potatoes and lentils, bowls of endive-and-radish salad, small ...
Human beings are nothing but intellectually organized closely interconnected interestingly and independently functioning trillions of atoms. We manipulate these atoms by our thoughts. At the ...
Love's very pain is sweet
When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. ...
What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, ...
Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to ...
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people ...
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy, said Catarina Loss, her voice gentle. They
Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.
It's simple. Listen to your heart. With everything you do, listen to your heart. If your heart feels right, you can't go wrong.
My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one ...
The last thing I heard before falling asleep was, "Everything is okay now."No matter how much I wanted to believe Stellan, I knew he was ...
Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be ...
But from now on the Herondales owe the Carstairs. Okay? Remember that.
Not all breaks are clean. Sometimes we crumble, sometimes we erode. And those erosions, Eppie-the ones that chip away at our hopes and dreams and ...
Spiffy is a free-loading deadbeat kitty who sits around on my couch, watches TV all day, and eats all the Triscuits.
Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.
The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying ...
If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated ...
You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.
Erasmus of Rotterdam, a sixteenth-century priest who was committed to reforming the church from within, said, When faith came to be in writings rather than ...
For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the ...
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't ...
Now is as good a time as any to send up a prayer.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when ...
A part of me, of course, was reminding myself over and over and over again that I should never have tried to lie to the ...
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the ...
We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when ...
At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see ...
Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring ...