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The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like ...
I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder ...
I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.
Pursue the Dream and Live the Journey
God shall not forgive that person until he forgives his brother, for rancor is a serious affliction that festers in one's heart and blocks good ...
The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment ...
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip ...
Shepley stomped into the apartment and slammed the door behind him. "She's fucking impossible!" I kissed Travis on the cheek. "That's my cue." "Good luck," ...
Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.
Love has no time table, no rules. It is what it is, Saylor
The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise ...
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them.As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra once said, Don't waste ...
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
Luck ran out, but smart was for life.
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close ...
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a ...
I don't believe the world will end, but i believe stones will wear away. so i don't care what you place on my tombstone.
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into ...
If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of ...
Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or ...
Success is always the result of following the leading of the Holy Spirit.
We are only righteous in Christ and in him alone. But that's a hard pill to swallow, especially if you give yourself kudos for good ...
I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and ...
Who's Myrnin?"Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss.""You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?
Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.
When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in ...
Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right.
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds ...
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
He leaned down close, his breath fanning out over my cheek. Don't worry, Katie. I don't bite. Unless you want me to.
Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That don't go anywhere. So ...
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a tailor, as I ...
We are responsible for the Universe, because we are the Universe'(Brida)
When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. ...
As in the case of the economy, an 'invisible hand' will often be a better cultivator of ideas and allocator of effort. The challenge for ...
I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.
No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.
Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
By the FCC's own reckoning, the cable companies will soon enjoy an uncontested monopoly over broadband Internet in much of the United States beyond the ...
The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!
I learned how to argue. They called it 'Debate'. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive ...
St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for ...
I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
Then you haven't lost your soul. Only a creature with a soul can tell the difference between right and wrong. Yes, you've made mistakes, but ...
My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.
I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head ...
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film ...
Mercy?""Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.
How to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with them defines our future happiness or unhappiness.
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
( ... ) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, ...
He motions toward my discarded cigarette butt. Littering
They hold their phones out like Hamlet addressing Yorick's skull...
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that ...
Actions transform a dream into reality - not hope.
It was a scream of loss so immense there was no speech for it. It was the wordless cry of having the sky over your ...
But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a ...
The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
She hoped to understand the feelings that had sprouted and continued to grow inside her human shell. The unquenchable desire for companionship. The irrational fear ...
Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing ...
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like ...
Pure heart begets pure body, soul and spirit.
Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
Rampage frowns. "If you can't even hear about it, how are you going to watch the fight?" Bucket on head. Facecloth over eyes. Torment has ...
I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.
I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. ...
A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, ...
The only bright corner of my heart, where nothing seemed to hurt, was where Grey was. When I thought of him, I could see a ...
Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.
Lee leaned forward, caught me by the waistband of my jeans and hauled me back between his legs.
If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people ...
Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to ...
Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.
One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and ...
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 ...
Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn't love you, it's not an easy thing, ...
He resembled, to an extraordinary degree, an asparagus.
Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's hidden inside of ...
Dreams are the interface between the worlds, between time and space.
An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't ...
Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.
It is terrible to be an unprotected being.
Any guy who thinks he automatically knows how to please a woman is a conceited ass. Every woman is one of a kind. Every woman ...
Right is its own defense.
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.
They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I'm pretty sure it's yours too.
I like any place that isn't here.