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While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial ...
I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching ...
I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.
I would like to sit down with Oprah, just because I'd like to talk to her. I want to sit down and, like, converse. Like, ...
There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon ...
Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it ...
And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.
We have FCC, abandoned alimony payments, assault and battery, Homeland Security escalation, and that's before we invite the IRS to take a walk on your ...
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of ...
Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open ...
My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.
It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...
Happiness starts within. It's all a choice and a mindset. No matter what your circumstances are you CAN be happier than you are right now.
I can't make those two realities what I've lost and what I've found fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have ...
Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made ...
Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.
Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life ...
Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are ...
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for ...
The Things That Divide Us Are Stronger Than The Things That Unite Us.
It's a blessing. It's a curse. It's what you get for saying hello to people. At some point, a good-bye is coming, too. Not just ...
It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of painSharp words like daggers placed it hereTo fill with hurtIn filling it grew heavy ...
She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it ...
Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and holdups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the ...
I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, ...
Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. ...
You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going ...
That was not sex. That was naked poetry.
I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found ...
Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in ...
It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more.
I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would ...
All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.
The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
I've long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white ...
I figured I'd embellish the truth a little, since the police might not be up on the finer points of bounty hunterism and might not ...
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.
Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles.""That comesas you call itof being arrant asses," retorted the doctor.
If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any given time. Like yin and ...
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts ...
In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in ...
You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on ...
Duh, Winning!!!!(hhahaha)
There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"].
I don't suffer from my insanity I enjoy every minute of it.
Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not ...
Jelle, if you really love Guji, you'd be willing to let him go and allow him to be happy with the woman he loves. Walang ...
The kitchen is the most important place in any house. Visit your family, and that's where you'll end up. Go to a party, that's where ...
Alison's mum has had a lot of plastic surgery and she wears fake eyelashes the size of hairbrushes. She looks sort of like a person ...
Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or ...
Hesternal, I remembered, meant, "pertaining to yesterday." I was nodding over the rest of the phrase
Time and again the people still in the camp, realizing they were now trapped, called to God in a hundred different dialects. He laughed and ...
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be ...
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 ...
Fang is not the huggiest person in the world - he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you ...
Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions ...
If heat rises, heaven must be hotter than hell.
Hi, you've reached Caitlin! I'm either on the other line or I'm purposely ignoring you. Or maybe Mrs. Mitchell confiscated my phone for texting in ...
Will you accompany me in this dance?" he said, bowing and holding out his hand. "No, thank you." Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked ...
She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea ...
You know, you cannot be comfortable on a high heel shoes the way you would be in sneakers. But, you know, not everyone wants to ...
An educated woman carries herself with a humble, quiet grace, yet her presence is powerful. She does not feel as thou she needs to act ...
Silverlake-Echo was several miles due est of Mount lee, a hilly area with lots of twisting streets, greenery and seclusion, the kind of terrain a ...
The job of economic theorists is to prove theorems. The job of policy economists is to figure out which theorems to apply.
I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day ...
I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.
In Asia, Free People, along with World Co., Ltd. of Japan, will launch a shop in Shinjuku and a freestanding store and wholesale showroom in ...
The jury was a cynical, unsophisticated bunch, seemingly incapable of empathy, eager to embrace defense bromides however haphazardly delivered.
There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I ...
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but ...
It had been a long, dull day at Jackson without Hurrican Lena, and I was starting to wonder how I ever got through eight periods ...
The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking ...
According to Hegel, the slave fully acknowledges the self-consciousness of the master and she dissolves herself or upholds herself as their relationship dictates and evolves ...
When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help ...
I promise that no matter what happens in the future, we will work it out. I vow that no matter how life goes, I'll be ...
Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail - and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how ...
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive ...
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death ... but say that in the summer, for ...
I know you must be hurting now, but don't give up hope on future happiness, and all the good things that are still to come ...
Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.
At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the ...
Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.
I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that ... All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is ...
I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.
I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and ...
We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to ...
Give me liberty or give me death.[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House ...
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there ...
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.
How was one to treat alike insulting, insolent and corrupt officials, co-workers of yesterday raising meaningless opposition, and men who had always been good to ...
A parallel world than a religious kind of afterlife. In fact, he was especially critical of religious leaders, whom Twain felt had been using the ...