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For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky ...

Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out ...

For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it ...

When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing.

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had ...

Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

I have made really some significant deals because I play golf.

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.

When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on ...

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in ...

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

DYNAM comes from the Greek dynamis, meaning "power." A dyne is a unit used in measuring force; an instrument that measures force is called a ...

We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, ...

Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking ...

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don't act when given the opportunity.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you ...

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and ...

Bay nodded. "I guess he's not going to know if I don't really say what's on my mind." Mel's eyes danced with laughter. "I think ...

The only time you don't find a four-leaf clover," he liked to say, "is when you stop looking for one.

( ... ) not even with the drugs kissing my soul with sweet, sinful lips.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

I think the best answer is as little as possible.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

Pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself.

During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sunsetting in the distance, it wassomehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what ...

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I ...

Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is ...

For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find ...

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

To fantasize is to fertilize that dark garden growing inside your head.

On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a ...

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it ...

I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will ...

It's nice to be needed.

I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which ...

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

I try to make as much time as I can for R5, because I love it so much. Ultimately, that's what's going to be around ...

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

Remember how Paul and Barnabas urged this upon the Jews of Antioch, 'persuading them to continue in the grace of God' (Acts 13:43; Gal. 5:4; ...

Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ...

'The Judy Show' would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with ...

But in the end, you can't kill what you can't see coming ...

All music is beautiful.

May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan.

I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia ...

Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto ...

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man ...

ISA43.18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. ISA43.19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring ...

I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's ...

Things happen whether you deserve them or not

Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 ...

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

94. Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas.

Some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.

I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it ...

We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, ...

If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that which ...

There's nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. It was that ...

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain ...

This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

Sometimes, you're going to have to work hard, sometimes extra hard, and sometimes you still won't get that recognition. That's life. That's the way it ...

Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and ...

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue ...

The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of ...

This was a bad plan. A horrible plan. Just because cobwebs were growing in my vagina didn't mean I should hook up with some stranger.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take ...

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't ...

When you walk in the company of your courage, nothing & no one - can stand in your way.

Call me that again," she growled. "And I'll gut you, rip out your spine through your nose, yank your spleen out of your asshole and ...

One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of Fredericia. In 1863, my ...

We cannot fail to win - unless we fail to try.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ...

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

I need you. I need you safe and well and whole. I need you to be okay, because that's the only thing that will keep ...

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to ...

Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods ...

FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch's playing! I have always loved that about him.

'Scent's the thing, right? How you find someone. I've got yours inside me. I could find you whether I wanted to or not. Whether you ...

Facet of existence that only a few hundred in history have glimpsed, but so what? I could hardly tell