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In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
Typically, we use the term "playing politics" only to describe our colleagues' behavior - never our own. They are sucking up, scheming, and manipulating, but ...
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't ...
The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers.
Don't ask, don't tell. Keep your head down. Don't lie - just keep them talking about themselves and pretty soon they'll see their reflection. It's ...
It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it ...
It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but ...
My caution kicks in when I encounter either one of two sorts of dramatic theories: those that claim to have found the secret of consciousness, ...
My family wasn't the Brady Bunch. They were the Broody Bunch.
Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to ...
If you've ever thought, 'The new Times Square is delightful but would be even better if it were more claustrophobic and nearly impossible to leave', ...
I support the view that free trade in goods and services is a win-win situation. I'm not so convinced that free flows of capital without ...
When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its ...
Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not ...
The baby, when he or she is ready to be born, will send a message that tells the mother's body that it is ready. The ...
I smiled at my champion, but he just shook his head and muttered more words in Spanish. I was pretty sure he either called me ...
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.
We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have ...
The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the ...
Please. Don't use the Lord's name, unless you're in prayer. It's a hundred years in purgatory.
When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot ...
As for myself, I have found my perfect pattern in Jesus, who said, "The Father has not left Mealone, for I always do those things ...
War is the lifeblood of this merchant republic.
You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you ...
People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? ...
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to ...
If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He ...
The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other ...
Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your ...
The one thing I do like is lotion and moisture on my hands and face. I love to have my face moisturized. I like different ...
Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something ... stay positive!
I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed through the campaign ...
Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.
In Jesus the full meaning of peace is revealed: he gave peace, made peace and is our peace (Jn. 14:27; Eph. 2:14f.).
I had to make a large number of changes to clear Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) up, it took years to figure it out. I kept on ...
It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you.
So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing.
The prize is in the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it [my work]those ...
While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?
Go ahead. Enjoy the hills and valleys, days and nights, and all the beauty of life.
How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about ...
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to ...
Why would you introduce me to your family? Won't they wonder what happened, when we finally ... ?"His eyes fixed on mine, serious, sincere. "Because ...
Traven stares at me. If eyes could scream, run home, and hide under the blankets, he'd be blind. Is
With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own ...
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
God hears and answers every prayer in His sacred time.
Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is ...
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock" (1 Pet. 5:3). My interpretation: "These leaders must lead by example for ...
Forever thine, forever mine.
A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
That fiend! Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the ...
I am born anew at each green fall of the die, and by die-ing I eliminate my since. The past - paste, pus, piss - ...
Lose this battle so we can win the war.
Today the wolverines of the Lower 48 are confined to a few remote parts of Montana, Idaho, and northern Wyoming, with perhaps a dozen more ...
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living ...
Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...
The broad goal, laid out by Congress, the Obama administration, and the U.N. Security Council, was that Iran would suspend all enrichment-related activities and not ...
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
If the boat they were riding in was plunging over the falls upside down, there was nothing to do but fall with it. Tebngo could ...
Countries rush to war thinking it is the quickest, easiest solution to conflict, only to find themselves still entrenched years later, suffering more losses than ...
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
To help me to my grave. I asked for you to leave. Will you make me call my gaolers and have you dragged away, you ...
A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.
Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.
No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves ...
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 ...
It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in ...
Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's ...
My life used to be boring. A damnation here, a curse there, with an occasional blight or two to break routine. Now I have Aisling ...
Life is a lot like surfing ... When you get caught in the impact zone, you've got to just get back up. Because you never ...
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, ...
Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general correlations ...
When they stepped out of the taxi and approached the hotel lobby, she mustered up the courage to take Nick's hand. He quickly let go, ...
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities ...
She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She'd never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn't a matter ...
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
Easy there, Smurfette.
For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go ...
What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do ...
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the ...
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flowsLike the wave;Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.Love tends life a little grace,A few sad smiles; ...
There is something about hearing a man say he wants to spend the rest of his life with you that has a way of stunning ...
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.
Sasanian monarchy and the fabled Kayanid