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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a ...

Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to ...

Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

If you can't help it, don't think about it

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it ...

Ask yourself your own questions and go after what might answer them. Before life, you must maintain a philosophical and scientific stance. Always.

Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no ...

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Every love that leads away from His love is in fact a punishment; only a love that leads to His love is a heartfelt and ...

Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly ...

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, "Yes!" He does not ...

I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me 'Weasley.

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

I never really had a strong accent.

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject ...

Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a ...

It's ok to say you've got a weak spot,you don't always have to be on top.Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you're not.

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I Think All Depends On Your Mind That Create This Word

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are ...

Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you?

That's the truth, I guess. We don't catch moments in the passing. We don't catch them at all. We just reach and scramble and wish ...

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side ...

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my ...

I stared at Irys. My Story Weaver had to be laughing his blue ass off right now. My future appeared to be a long twisted ...

Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud ...

The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.

Harper, did you just ... did you just throw a pen at Liz?""Oh my gosh, no, Mrs. Ford! I was just ... um ... writing ...

Internal bleeding?""Indeed," she said, gesturing to a bag of light red fluid. "You pee blood as we speak."I felt down to my nether regions and ...

The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be ...

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who ...

My love for my family has grown for years in decay-fed soil, unwashed root pulled suddenly from the ground. Bulbous as a beet, a huge ...

WINTER: Because I guess I like the idea that maybe someday I can find my place, you know? My niche. Somewhere people will keep me.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having ...

It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.

When we walk in the sunour shadows are like barges of silence.

We don't notice things change. We know that things change, we've been told since childhood that things change, we've witnessed things change ourselves many a ...

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

Every night she breaks your heart, and yet every morning you love her more. If that's not enough, nothing will be!

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, ...

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this ...

Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.

Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should ...

You can study the rules until your eyes fall out of your head, but if you cannot recall which rule fits your particular situation just ...

I'm in no condition to drive ... wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

We are our own worst inhibitors

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the ...

We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better ...

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart ...

The car had been returned to the impoundment lot where Luther had "borrowed" it earlier that night. The plate would get them nowhere,

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

Can I ask a stupid question ?There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. Ask away.

My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Elizabeth Blackwell, "with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value," found herself in the "unknown world" of Paris. What made her situation ...

She stood there waiting for me to approach, as though absolutely certain that I would take her by the arm and continue strolling down the ...

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

Frosty winter evenings, patterns of ice forming on the window panes outside, fresh coal piled on the red embers, and the fire spurting sulphurous flames ...

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today! Guess what the ...

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy ...

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?

I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

It is better to have burnt & lost, then to never have barbecued at all.

You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have ...

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.

If you can be heard then you exist, mutters hungover Bank, massaging her temples.

Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to ...

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people ...

I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

Galactic Hot Dogs is an insanely entertaining, eye-popping adventure!

Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.