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The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
Some have brains, so they get a book! Others are feather-brained, so they get a broom!
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which ...
A good sense of humour combined withself-distance always make the world a better place. And my hundred-year-old, Allan Karlsson, would probably add a bottle of ...
I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if ...
I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because ...
In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.
Arise and pour pure wine into my cup,Pour moon beams into the dark night of mythought,That I may lead home the wandererAnd imbue the idle ...
The truth is people who worship health cannot remain healthy on the point.
Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened.""You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," ...
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that ...
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this ...
The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.
Let me see: There's Miss Garnnett in Ireland, in June of 1770; Miss Nightjar in Swansea on April 3, 1901; Miss Avocet and Miss Bunting ...
A divine 'punishment' is also a divine 'gift', if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make ...
I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it is our moral ...
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.
Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get.
We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in ...
Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it's brought a tear to my eye, and a boner to my pants.
We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.
The hallmark of a disorganized individual is that they never finish what they start.
We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need today to think ...
It's all such crap," she said. "I find this magazine called People in garbage cans," she said, "but it isn't about people. It's about crap.
When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.
You've captured my flag but I captured your imagination. It's true you regulate what I grow, regulate what i know, and to pray or to ...
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But ...
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all ...
When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to ...
Why did I pick what was safe when I should have chosen what was real?
The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will ...
God is all in all.
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
I'm not brave," I said, smiling despite myself. "Bravery implies I had a choice. I'm just me, you know?" I
I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. ...
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels ...
I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your ...
The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, ...
She remembers the first night she knew she loved him, the way the fear came rushing in. She laid her head on his chest and ...
You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
Not doing pictures these days?" Jacin muttered as they hurried through the shop. "How very Lunar of you." Cinder glared against the sudden, burning sunlight. ...
Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen ...
Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars ...
Memories are painful and beautiful; wisdom is wonderful. When I am living in the present moment, I use wisdom and enjoy the memories of the ...
He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways.
You'll never have the chance to work this stuff out unless you give yourself the chance.
If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of ...
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.
One way or another he was going out in two weeks, and God help me, I wanted to protect him. More than that, I wanted ...
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower ...
It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good ...
The best thing is to realize that you are who you are and you gotta work with what you got.
Wear sexy panties tonight," he said against my mouth. "I don't have any other options except commando." Lee's arm tightened spasmodically right before he murmured, ...
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
Send message to the future by writing it today!
A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.
Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character ...
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to ...
The strong times, the weak times they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to ...
When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of ...
Religion was created in order to share the mystery and to worship, not to oppress or convert others. The
The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford ...
To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end,when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach,and the weather day after ...
Because I'm not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn't have loved me if I was. I realize that now.
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions ...
I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't ...
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object ...
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.
There's another picture of the two of them, she with her arms around him, looking at the camera. She is an apparition, a naughty angel ...
The total effect of Orwell's work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man ...
We remained travelers, enclosed in the self, capable, possibly, of transforming ourselves in contact with alterity, but certainly not of experiencing it profoundly. We are ...
The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and ...
Of all the varieties of violence of which our sorry species is capable, genocide stands apart, not only as the most heinous but as the ...
Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one ...
You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.
Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as ...
Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and ...