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The Republicans' plan is that if they can't buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to ...
In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact ...
If you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be ...
He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')
The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern ...
When you smile it takes up half your face.''Simon!' she exclaimed. 'That sounds horrible.''It's enchanting.''Distorted.''Desirable.
More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. In death metal, a lot of ...
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in ...
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is ...
Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.
Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,The child is born by many a pang endear'dAnd now the mother's ear has caught his cry;O grant ...
Clair de Lune," a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide. ...
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn't work. The harder you fight, the more ground ...
Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was ...
I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full of flavor and, yes ... fat. I got skinny on ...
He watched as Finnikin swung onto the horse, his sleeve stained with blood. Froi liked the way Finnikin reached behind him and took Evanjalin's hand, ...
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
Ultimately, open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation,
For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give ...
If you were enjoying a festive dinner at a friend's house and found a dead cockroach in your salad, what would you do?
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies ...
Entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself
I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a ...
It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'
The world is generally multivariate
Dolorous Edd Tollett gave a sigh. When I was a lad, we only ate mice on special feast days. I was the youngest, so I ...
Be much more friendly to such things that matter most .Things that will propel your vision and ambition to higher heights. Things that will help ...
It's not an easy thing to tell the girl that you love more than life itself that you're going to marry someone else.
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will ...
I don't get upset with anyone after being hit in a game.
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold. ...
The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.
Anger must be the evergy that has not yet found its right channel.the Measure of my Days
We enjoy the sense of God's presence in the midst of suffering here and now. I have talked to people who are experiencing deep pain ...
Husband," she said and her lips curved, before she grinned. "Since we can't wear wedding rings and still shift, do I get my fur lined ...
This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.It was a goodbye kiss.
We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentricwe think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon ...
In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found ...
If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as ...
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
To strip failure of its real emotional consequences is to scrub the concepts of grit and resilience of the very qualities that make them both ...
I try not to laugh at the fact that even when she's drunk, she has a hard time saying it. "Where do you want me ...
At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos.
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence ...
I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me
Personal freedom comes from embodying intent, love, and gratitude... this is the mastery of life.
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.
The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.
For example, knowing that it takes only about eleven and a half days for a million seconds to tick away, whereas almost thirty-two years are ...
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. ...
The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.
No matter her heartache, she'd begun to embrace whatever was handed to her, shrugging with a broody spirit to enter fully within.
For pleasing to me are meadows and a far view
Emotions And Feelings In Life Are Like Water In The Ocean Which Will Never Dry
Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal ...
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization ...
Schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) ...
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or ...
Your father is proud of us for having ababy."Gabriel nodded, as he continued brushing."That means he's proud of us for having sex and you for ...
Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles ... first, we need to make more with less ... second, we need ...
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I ...
It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold ...
For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the ...
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of ...
In every garden grows one single rose so perfect that once the frost takes it, no other can grow there again. My rose is and ...
Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.
My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget ...
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, ...
It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. ...
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multistate system that is ...
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do ...
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over ...
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have ...
He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith's trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones - ...
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by ...
Erich Koch, chosen by Hitler to rule Ukraine, made the point about the inferiority of Ukrainians with a certain simplicity: "If I find a Ukrainian ...
Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.
The course of our lives is determined by how we reactwhat we decide and what we doat the darkest of times. The nature of that ...
As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and ...
What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I ...
The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.
You can call me gay or a tutti-frutti But I won't touch it until I know whose booty
You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.
Because then they don't have to struggle with the need to die to the ego-driven self and become a humble servant of all people, which ...
When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I ...
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from ...
I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those ...
Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live in New England, ...
I wondered if what one normally calls "normal" was itself a sort of dullness, a deadening of sense and spirit, if not, indeed, a very ...
I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is ...
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.