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This chapter reviews the knowledge and practice that social workers need to establish beginning competency in working with transgender and gender nonconforming persons.
Great," I muttered. "Maybe we can go out on a date, fall in love, get married, have us a whole bunch of kids and die ...
What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in ...
Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. ...
Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by ...
What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours ...
Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love ...
I spun and jogged around the SUV. Climbing in I readjusted the seat from Godzilla setting to Normal so my feet could reach the pedals.
People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.
When there is no bread and even when there is we should eat our fill of one another.
I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out ...
In the West, we have deliberately excluded religion from political life and regard faith as an essentially private activity. But this is a modern development, ...
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in ...
It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime ...
Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each ...
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's ...
He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us. In his cold pupil, in the firm twist of ...
I swear, this stupid town. Why does every hideous supernatural thing that happens happen here? I'm gone for a few months and augh. Be right ...
Meeting your obligations is the definition of adulthood, kid. If you're going to make mistakes and break promises, now's the time.
Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all ...
I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these ...
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there ...
Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.
An old cardboard box: you think it but you don't say it.Leftovers, that are swept up and glued together.I am your alipte, I say, I ...
Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with ...
Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!
He gave her an encouraging smile. "I know horrible memories haunt your dreams, but you're the strongest woman I know. If anyone can do this, ...
Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me.
Think positive and be a half full glass not half empty glass person. Positive thoughts work so much better than negative ones
This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.
That's funny, it's funny!
Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I'm not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.
Of course I mean it. I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.
I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a ...
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version? A: No official release of myself will ever follow!Q: Then, you are not!A: ...
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
There is no country but the heart.
Because the reward is worth the risk.
On the three pigs he and his wife own: We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has ...
Sorry. Sorry. Don't hit. Bitches be scary when they hit.
All this yummy muscleness first thing in the morning is almost too much for me to take," she cooed, and gave him a playful wink ...
Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. My heart belongs to someone.
Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely ...
Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I ...
I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't ...
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of ...
I believe the present matters not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by ...
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
A teacher is like a magical mirror that will show you your future. Imagine if you have no teacher, it may mean you have no ...
Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
He said, I like girls from broken homes who are crazy about chocolate and who love the rain. I've been waiting for a girl like ...
What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more than five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come ...
Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most.
Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life ... do that.
I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but ...
We develop ulcers, high blood pressure, headaches, and other physical problems in part because our stress systems aren't designed to handle the "dangers" of our ...
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, ...
I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying ...
I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [me manager ] said, ...
Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going ...
Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he ...
Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the ...
Moonlight drifts from overA hundred thousand milesTo fall upon a cemeteryIt reads a hundred epitaphsAnd then smiles at a nest ofBaby owls
A lot of people get a misconceptionAnd start drifting in the wrong directionMiss Goody Two Shoes see you laterI ain't got time and you ain't ...
The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!
To compete. And then there is the hype. Vendors, analysts and the media talk up new technologies and trends making them sound like the 'next ...
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
Mistah Kurtz--he dead.
Girl, all you have to do is say the word, and Mr. Lusty McLust a Lot here will be happy to whisper some dirty nothings ...
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely ...
Don't talk too much or too soon.
Mikey, she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine ...
Competition is good for consumers for the simple reason that it compels producers to offer better deals - lower prices, better quality, new products, and ...
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: ...
We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want ...
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't ...
Kate's phone rang, with the caller ID Nick McGarrett.
Humans are animals, too, you know.
Unlike stocks, where in our country, you go to sleep, everyone tells you everything is wonderful, you wake up and everything is gone.
Happy Christmas, Clara. Xx.Yes, I know. I know that text doesn't look like much. But ... actually. First note the comma. I feel proud of ...
I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and ...
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way ...
The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off ...