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The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
I think what you can't see is always what you should be frightened of.
You're my backbone. You're a blessing. You're a piece of my heart. You're the air I breathe. And you're the strongest person I know, and ...
Sancho, just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the ...
When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.
That's the girl ... that's the girl" Annabeth punched him in the nose and knocked him flat. "And you," she told him, "lay off my ...
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
Creation is the eternal play of the Divine (Parabrahma, the Totality).You cannot adequately describe the majesty of a tree by talking about a flower, a ...
My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
Real truth is common knowledge in the world of living men. Men only get to asking about it when they have a hard time accepting ...
Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces ...
The magnet principle says, 'Like attracts like.' You'll attract to you the people, circumstances, events, money and resources you need to accomplish your goals.
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the ...
Coffee," I said boldly. "Some people need it in order to function, but being who you are, I wasn't sure if you actually needed anything ...
I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my ...
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of ...
It was good to be out there again. Actually I told my wife the same thing: Itll be fun to go out in a stadium ...
'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, ...
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord ...
The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've ...
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet ...
They hadn't read as many stories as Malicia, and were rather more attached to the experience of real life, which is that when someone small ...
It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of ...
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
I know muckers are the simplest of commoners and becoming a lady's maid is a right honor, but I couldn't give up the wild steppes ...
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking ...
At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.
In fact, I'd say monologuing out your product news and ad messages is decidedly antisocial.
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.
I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.
I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
She threw herself across her bed, weeping into a pillow. She knew just what she wanted -- the desire was a fierce ache inside her. ...
I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements ... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to ...
We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least call it ...
Gabriel gazed at his reflection in the mirror. To his shock and dismay, he was clad only in his underwear, a cheeky pair of boxer ...
That one won't crack, though, Mendel decided with approval; one of your flabby oak trees, Smiley was. Think you could blow him over with one ...
Like the earth pulling on the moon,and the moon pulling on the tide,his lips gravitatetoward mine.
Today, valor and courage are hard to find. People are fickle, angry, resentful and selfish. It stops them from having courage and fighting for something ...
I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.
The way to get a maximum rate of 'economic growth' assuming this to be our aim - is to give maximum encouragement to production, employment, ...
She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. ...
In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag ...
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in ...
Dawkins's result can only be obtained because of the element of intelligent design embedded in the whole experiment.
The exchange of thoughts is a condition necessary for all love, all friendship and all real dialogue. Two men who can speak together can enrich ...
Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he ...
To sustain these true moments of insight one has to be highly disciplined, lead a disciplined life,
The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon ...
He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - ...
Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at ...
Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are ...
Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the ...
If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?
A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.
When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of ...
The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too ...
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. ...
I miss him so badly it hurts.
I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.
When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...
Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can ...
What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except ...
This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions aredependent on changes in the brain we must include illusions, which are after allsense-impressions as ...
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, ...
First, I had time, but no money; then I had money, but no time. Finally, I had time and money, but no health to make ...
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the ...
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.
I work in a giant building:forty floors and forty cubiclesper wing, four wings per floor,one person and one personalcomputer per cubicle, a labyrinthin which everyone's ...
Catalyst also provides a handy, free-of-charge quiz that managers could benefit from taking. The quiz can help leaders understand whether their organizations are inclusive and ...
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
The highest art ... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your ...
Do y'all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the ...
Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of ...
A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends. Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, ...
Tell her stories to alleviate her inquietude; for stories always amuse the ladies, and it is only by interesting them that one can succeed in ...
Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, ...
Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - ...
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 ...
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.
If only Nixon could go to China, only Obama can end the self-memorialization obsession that is presidential libraries - by not building such a shrine.
A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not ...
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But ...
Acheron: You're really not right, are you?Nick: Yeah. I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but ...
The Comprehensive Cancer Center has a few stage one and stage two studies in advancement. We effectively take an interest in clinical trials which gives ...
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read ...