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(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even

A Nelsonian solution provides a simple, predictable way to share without limit or hassle over digital networks, and yet doesn't destroy middle classes in the ...

What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture ... It takes ...

For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid ...

Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone ...

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome ...

I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people ... as ...

Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I ...

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

The front seat is for people who've never been kidnapped by bloody numpties. Jesus Christ, Baz.

A Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent

The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, and she can't help marveling ...

Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We ...

States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a ...

One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was ...

The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and ...

Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm.

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

I've learned that the heart does not lie. The thought of never being with him or having him in my life again shattered me. Not ...

Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly ...

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight ... There's an easy way to get away from ...

They're not going to come between us, though, because I'm crazy about you and have been for a long time.""That's not good enough for me. ...

To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.

... my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me ... " "I've never much cared for ...

Not to marry, know love, or bind, their fate;Your line to die for never seed shall take.Death and torment to those caught in their wake,unless ...

MAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts - no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous.

He cared only about people; he was scarcely conscious of places except for their weather, until they had been invested with color by tangible events.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena ...

Mother in my first short story is dead, nobody knows how but she is dead and the father somehow madness or who knows from what ...

He had to reduce his age on his bio data. Otherwise, he had little chance of getting a job. Why would an Indian company employ ...

Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles ...

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a ...

There is nobody as brave as a baby taking his/her first non-stop 5 steps alone from Mummy's hand to daddy's hand ... trust me on ...

Often it is those who preach "tolerance," "nonjudgmentalism," and "intellectualism" who are most intolerant.

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of ...

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no ...

Yesterday God helped me, Today He'll do the same. How long will this continue? Forever - praise His name!

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

Grab me now and do naughty things to my no no places.

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a ...

Old Lowji's nasty remark would haunt Farrokh forever: "Immigrants are immigrants all their lives!" Once someone makes such a negative pronouncement, you might refute it ...

The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service

Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to ...

You are you [Nanette O'Hare] - and that's okay, because this existence you're making your way through is your story and no one else's.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in ...

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with ...

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. ...

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a ...

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of ...

The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this ...

God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, ...

I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.

If you want proof that 'Catfish' was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really ...

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

Thank you ... for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

I rarely remember the names or faces of nonfictional people

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

Luc moved to the center of the floor. I don't have all day, guys. I have things to do. A nap I want to take ...

I'm a suburbanite nowIn L.A. you have to be so careful about what you say and who you trust. It's such an awful way to ...

Dame Poverty gave me my name,And Pain godfathered me.

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think ...

Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company ...

Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your ...

Once upon a dream in a blanket of night sky you asked me to tell you a story which began with us holding hands.

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or ...

But if there's one thing Dad's bad times have taught me, it's this: I never, ever want to have anything I can't survive without.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you ...

Aylin stepped outside before Danello could argue further. What's going on Nya's declaring war on the Duke he said. I thought we alredy did that.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll ...

Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'.

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and ...

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.

It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with the t-shirt guy ...

Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs;

Where did you learn to kiss like that?" I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again."I said I was a virgin, ...

I can't watch the news anymore. They have their priorities all out of whack. All I see is Natalee Holloway and Britney Spears and the ...

I'd like that translated if I may.British Prime Minster Harold Macmillan on Nikita Khruschev's shoe banging at the UN General Assembly on 29th September 1960

I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and ...

You could try," Reacher said. "But you'd get hurt. You're out of your league. You're up against something you never saw before.""You have a mighty ...

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die ...

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum ...

The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is ...

Baby, I'm dying for it to be all over this." "Please don't die. You wouldn't get to enjoy this if you did," she says

Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells ... any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself ...

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big ...

All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want to be in ...

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there ...

Because all I could think about was you, Anna, and how good you are, and what you'd think of me. You put thoughts into my ...