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The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third ...

Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is ...

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole fromyou. And I want it to be something that even a ...

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What ...

I don't want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do ...

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By ...

Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial ...

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.[Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara ...

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered ...

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

Some people work with a trainer, some people work with a stylist. I work with a celebrity fecalist. A fecalist is basically a person who ...

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls ...

I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to eat; it's very soothing and ...

His father looked wistful. 'And you don't feel anticlimatic?'What's that?'Somewhat the opposite of elated.'What's elated again?'Good feelings. That is to say, very good. You can ...

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare ...

Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a ...

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.

We can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.

Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

Sometimes you'll play, like, a large venue - maybe an outdoor venue or something - where it's so big that you can see all of ...

The bed under my back is filled with broken clouds and freshly fallen snow; it's too soft, too comfortable.

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

I wil not heat treason from my own daughterWhat will you do behead me for treason? We are not an amry at warWe are an ...

Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point. "No. Just sick of myself." "Why?""Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit ...

I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God ...

Wealth wins temporary allies;love wins permanent friends.

Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

This wedding is your parents' fault. They named her Kiley. She was doomed from birth to marry a hunky, fratty premed major.

I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

That's a fugging shame,

My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all ...

I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends ...

A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny ...

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story ...

There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the ...

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much.Mal: It's enough - from Firefly

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew ...

The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some ...

The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Friendship means never having to be alone, it means there's a constant wall of solidarity even when everything else is crumbling around you. If he's ...

In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and ...

Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather ...

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as ...

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so ...

The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.

In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.

So, are you moving in? Dove tried to look like she was casually leaning against a lamppost. But there was no lamppost, so it looked ...

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a ...

Jet lag is for amateurs.

If culture is to change, it will be because some new tangible (or audible or visible or olfactory) thing is presented to a wide enough ...

The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there's a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this ...

Ethan, this is my favorite moment, before all of my other favorite moments are created with a new client. You are my work of art, ...

I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun ...

Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere - not enough imagination to want to go anywhere! Getting their music by turning a dial. ...

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to ...

I write because you exist.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself ... that a tiger is an optical illusionwell, he will find out he is wrong. ...

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we ...

Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of ...

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

It's time to stop pretending that you're somebody else. No, you can't change this world, but you can change yourself.

The emotions you feel over and over and over again provide the vibrational cellular landscape that creates or destroys your health.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

You know a lot of times you'll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. There's a nasty vibe ...

The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.

It was then that the seven-year-old said, "I am ready. What wonderful place will we visit tonight?" "I can take you wherever your dreams desire," ...

There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound ...

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Sarcasm isn't at all funny when it's the truth

[...] Wasn't it lonely? Your life, I mean.""Yes.""You're alone?""Yes.""You live alone?""I am entirely alone, Marian," I repeated quietly.

I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I ...

I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I ...

We read classics to flood the xenosphere with irrelevant words and thoughts, a firewall of knowledge that even makes its way to the subconscious of ...

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that ...

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

We shake hands and part good comrades. But I have to get out of here, good fellows or no good fellows. Too much fellow feeling ...

I didn't have a solid opinion on the possibility of anyone's having psychic abilities or a fluency in reading auras, nor did I want to ...

You aligned yourself with the wron fella and there were consequences. Now you can wallow in it, or you can pull that thick head of ...

I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.