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But Mike was not a Layercake device; Beria had misdirected his scientific staff. In time this led to Beria's ultimate dilemma.

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my ...

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never ...

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy ...

Oh no. Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. Maybe if she prayed hard enough, the forest floor ...

I'm going to put a diamond on you the size of a lighthouse beacon. There won't be a man in this city who doesn't know ...

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Do you not understand?" he whispered. "I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child. It is a lonely thing to be ...

It is problematic because, taken together, the whole--composed of lies and truth--forms a truth of its own.

I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how ...

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...

Facing your fears and living a life that's free is easy. Spending the rest of your days living half a life is hard.

Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions.

Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God; face the brighter light and cast ...

And when you are afraid my darling, When you are afraid If worry claims you for her own If darkness shrieks your name Take courage, ...

Liquore just don't mix with love.

I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let ...

Thanks, Terry, so much for letting God use you - I'm really enjoying life with Him now.

As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since ...

Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and ...

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

I once considered learning to love iced coffee, but then I remembered I'd have to kill myself, so I gave up the idea.

Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have ...

Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay ...

Queen Latifah was the first time I had ever professionally written with another woman of any color.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.

We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won't all come true; we won't always make it; but where there is ...

Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise ...

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight ...

Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells.

What we are, we see the reflection in others.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read.

Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is ...

I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Most people know who Pegasus is, for instance, but few realize that he was born from the blood of snake-headed Medusa immediately after she was ...

Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.

In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time ...

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what ...

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press ...

I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships.

It was catchy though. The show wasn't. It was like Lamb Chop's Play-Along on acid but without the endearing weirdness of acid.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.''That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think.

It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever ...

He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers, then shook his head. "I wouldn't have let you get away. I was angry and ...

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in ...

We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to ...

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look ...

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, ...

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life ...

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 ...

I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

It's Laissez-Faire Until You Get In Deep Shit

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but ...

What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the ...

The kitchen is where you put all the ingredients together. The kitchen is where you prepare the plan and put your recipe together. No matter ...

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where ...

That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that ...

It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one ...

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get ...

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can ...

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...

There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's ...

I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more ...

I always ate healthy, but it wasn't scientific. Now it's a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don't get ...

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader ...

When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would ...

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Officially she was there to liaise with me on the case, but really she was there for the wide-screen TV, takeaways and the unresolved sexual ...

We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, 'I know not which I am!' " - Thomas ...

But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the ...

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me ...

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop ...

But what I forgot was that it was our plan, not hers, not the one doing the dying, this was a plan for those who ...

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too ...

My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I ...

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

SIXX: A.M. is a passion project. I think when you do things like that and put your heart into them and do your best and ...

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.

I adore you. I shall never love any-body in my life as I adore you, never and nowhere, neither ineternity, nor in terrenity, neither in ...