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Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn't seen God's power and ...

Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to ...

There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in ...

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our ...

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to ...

Being that I am of a high intellect, I find cursing distasteful and ill mannered. If that were not the case, however, I would compose ...

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent ...

The flower is here, so let's dance here.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in ...

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...

Monsters, ghost and everything spiritual and non-spiritual exists. Because we create it, the way to stop it..., is just to stop thinking about it. - ...

We film 'Resurrection' in Atlanta, where humidity is a force to be reckoned with, especially for those of us who have naturally curly hair. I ...

A noble pair of brothers.[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertivelywhich means to live authenticallyis an act of high courage. That is why so ...

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very ...

UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy ...

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars ...

The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism ...

It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

With an eye toward changing the way millions grow older, Novartis, the $260 billion Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has begun taking the first steps to position ...

Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the ...

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

I want us to be together, Evelyn, which I know won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever comes easy. If there's something you want, ...

I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots ...

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York ...

In a large sense, Main Street is the American origin story. It's an evocation of the American creation tale, and the kick is that the ...

And I have the personal promise of the Governor that never again will anybody be sent to the Sexual Offenders' Wing of the Adult Correctional ...

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ...

The gospel is so valuable that no risk is unreasonable. Life is gained by laying it down for the gospel. If I live, I win ...

It's mighty strange, without a doubt Nobody knows you when you're down and out

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to ...

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't ...

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no ...

The best love affairs are those we never had.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child ...

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

How do you live with a regret so deep it cuts through every part of you?

He had never felt so ashamed in his life; he had never imagined that he could behave so cruelly. He wondered how a boy who ...

That's the problem dealing with nonwerewolves," I said. "They lack that critical 'you are Alpha, you are right' gene.

I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too ... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.

Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.

The Empire is a thug, a bully. It's no better than Surat Nuat, or Black Sun, or the syndicate of Hutts. The Empire pretends it's ...

People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being ...

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes ...

Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody ...

I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About ...

It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily ...

I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal.

You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just ...

Experts see the world differently. They notice things that nonexperts don't see. They home in on the information that matters most, and have an almost ...

He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks its transept pillars: ...

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized ...

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, ...

The more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot." In

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No ...

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else ...

If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.

You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some ...

Why center your focus on making "Liberia" a Christian (nation) State? The focus should be, on, making "Liberia" a progressive state. Not a Christian one. ...

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than ...

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national ...

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 ...

I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said ...

It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate's ...

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it ...

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day ...

Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for ...

If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if ...

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in ...

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

I saw that a tender feeling was blossoming in her heart, like a rose in spring and I could not help recalling Petrarch's saying, "Innocence ...

If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy ...

There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus ...

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your ...

Probably the most fun I've ever had, actually, acting. Because it was the perfect extension of the stuff that I'd started to do on Late ...

No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own ...

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and ...

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful ...

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're ...

I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone ...

I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to ...

If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won't make you, never quite managed to be ...

He licks his lips as his head tilts down toward me. My body goes wild. Frissons of electricity travel up and down my spine as ...

We don't have anyone with bad haircuts, which is a good thing. Louis Delmas has some pretty nice dreads. He's a Florida boy, so they ...

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers ... but when ...

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...