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Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.

I myself might have found him appealing if he wasn't so obviously crazy and useless.

Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real world where people ...

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and ...

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily ...

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

There is no writers' block, it is just a gitch, a gtch, a tch, shhh. Glitch.

One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume ...

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

Putting together an agenda before a staff meeting is like a marriage counselor deciding what issues she's going to cover with a couple prior to ...

I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

I will say what I want to say. I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.

That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done. Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done ...

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. ...

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks ...

Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...

Startled, I accidently knock over my inkwell. A black tsunami of ink sprawls out across the page, engulfing the tiny village of my words. They ...

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three ...

Yeah, 'cause you were so quick to speak up earlier? it mocks. What's that one guy's name again? The one who is your heart and ...

As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).

A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular.

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come ...

His brother Blerg had a red ball with Kurt Cobain's face on it. Blerg kept looking back and forth between me and the ball like ...

Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are ...

For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I ...

Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.

Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and ...

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

I am the shape you made me.Filth teaches filth.

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. ...

We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime. Very few people could get licences, which were required right ...

Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.

From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.

Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.

The devil has his elect.

Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.

It does not make any difference what a man say; what matters is how he feels, and not how he feels on one particular day ...

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and ...

I love it so much I might agree to skip past friends and dating and have it's little gyro babies

A ship is safe in the harbour, but thats not what ships are built for.

And really, a formal ceremony and a piecce of paper wasn't what made a marriage. It was the feeling bursting apart my chest-the overwhelming sensation ...

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the ...

... Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to ...

The time had come to give the rest of the galaxy a look at Darth Vader.

Annual state spending alone for prison facilities is now estimated at about $52 to $62 billion, the bulk of which is spent building new facilities; ...

I think it's wonderful and important for there to be so much choice for customers. Wouldn't it be such a bore if we all created, ...

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal delight ...

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new ...

Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so ...

I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But ...

I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.

For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. ...

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all ...

I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, ...

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model ...

Healing, "recovering," from a death is also a form of estrangement, a further loss.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

The artificial preservation of local identities is essential to tourism. In other words, the tourist represents both the attempt to transcend all borders and identities ...

It takes me five rounds to hit the middle of the target, and when I do, a rush of energy goes through me. I am ...

What you don't want to do is dig around here like a groundhog on crack.

Our passions may be compared to certain slavesthe more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

But sin should never consume our focus at the expense of our confidence in the power and sufficiency of Christ. There is little danger in ...

However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

Finn had seen in the people he'd once contended with, and sometimes even among his own colleagues - a policy in which killing was the ...

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being ...

I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?

I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure ...

Artemis simple-toon

Below birds crossing the lake of the skyand purple martins on power lines, downto the trees and one thing my brother saidthat stays with me ...

This didn't sound strange to her in the meadow full of winter light. It wouldn't ring strange for some months, because here the horror was,

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

I don't want to get what I want; but, what I need through what I want; but, everything still involves around what I want. Because ...

Some people choose to be wrong just to say they were always right...

Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of ...

Know what you want and believe that you can have it.

Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam."From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea.""Weren't the stars afraid ...

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are ...

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about ...

A child in the position of confirming a negative stereotype may respond with especially intense anxiety and reduced motivation, amplifying a negative self-fulfilling prophecy.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and ...

[It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love ... ...