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Income inequality increased quite sharply in the United States during the 1920s, however, peaking on the eve of the 1929 crash with more than 50 ...
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're ...
Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other ...
When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold ...
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity ...
The charming grass, elegant water, fascinating winds, admirable rocks and delicate sands are never alone.
I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what ...
Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word "happiness" was derived from the same root "hap", similar ...
I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner the ...
It's so simple to fall in love but it's such a struggle to find true love.
I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to ...
I was 90% certain Thia was the best therapist money could buy; the remaining 10%, I still questioned if she was certifiable.
Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our ...
Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip ...
The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
The most lasting wound was invisible but persistent: The knowledge of Persephone's death hummed constantly through Adam like the pulse of the ley line.
Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do ...
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able ...
The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that ...
But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. ...
From 1 to 18 is the holly worst parts of your life, you are caged and you can't do anything times passes events happen different ...
Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me ...
It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs ...
Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger
I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. ...
He was tongue-tied in the presence of a fourteen-month-old baby. All the things he thought of saying, like 'Who's Daddy's little boy, then?' sounded horribly ...
How? Give me permission, tell me it's okay to strip you naked, kiss you wherever the need takes me, and f**k you until you can't ...
My grand baby is growing so fast, I can't believe she's already celebrating her first birthday in this month of October 2016. Happy Birthday Norah ...
Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as ...
I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of ...
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't ...
Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming ...
Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England's economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom
There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, ...
If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into ...
There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And ...
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting ...
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]
I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I ...
Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the Almighty Father's name: The Saviour Son be glorified, Who for lost man's redemption died; And equal adoration be, Eternal ...
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 ...
The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that ...
Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter
The test of your Christian Faith is to stand by the Truth of God's Word in the face of opposition without Compromise ... JOA
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love ...
We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The ...
If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want ...
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go ...
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
A brand is a little different. Me, as Carrie the person, wanders around in sweatpants. And then, when I have to be Carrie Underwood, there ...
I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake ...
It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into ...
He has a 5 year plan ... What is it, don't die?
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a ...
In life you use what you know, Anastasia.
People who were born in '66 are nearly fifty? I know the show's fifty, but it seems like yesterday. Human years are different. I'd have ...
The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are ...
I could have gotten away with it, I would have given her a 24-karat gold necklace that read Property of Quinn Sullivan
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first ...
A successful relationship requires 3 factors - Love, tolerance and contentment.
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer ...
The Bright Young People. The press love and hate them - they celebrate them, they vilify them, and they know full well that they would ...
99 percent of success is built on failure.
Imagination is a safety net that catches you. There is no going too far, no need for a safe word inside your mind. This world ...
I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic ...
This is a helpful working definition of pride. Pride is thinking much about one's self and much of one's self. To borrow words from Augustine, ...
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it ...
The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, ...
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each ...
I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There ...
I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny ...
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon ...
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on ...
I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A ...
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort ...
My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not ...
Never has the promise of glowing skin been more dangerously apt than in the early years of the twentieth century when radium was commonly used ...
The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never ...
Showing up is 80% of life.
From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, ...
We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of ...
I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got ...
At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, ...
Today Google celebrated its 13th anniversary ... That's right, Google turned 13 years old. Which explains why today when I searched for something, Google was ...
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the ...
Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - ...
I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to ...
When the phone ringsI too would like to hear wordsthat might easesome of this.
At the end of the day, I want to spend time with my daughter, and this schedule enables me to do that while still having ...
I never met my Uncle Jack. My mom was six months pregnant with me when he died. But I knew his wife and two kids ...
I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life ...
Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day