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We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
It takes two to make an accident.
Still I caught glimpses of another creature there in the tress, one with round eyes and a predator's hungry stare; but by the time I ...
Just shut up and talk. - Shella
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed ...
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.
... on being somewhat antisocial-"You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time.
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
You get a little stir crazy during the week.
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
There's one near Hoover Street Station. A picture of me, grass growing out of my heart while I'm talking to her.She looked at the wall ...
Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
Some spy," Irina scoffed. "Perhaps you can post photo to Internet and ask your Bookface friends to confirm.
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women's household chores from the category of productive work and, for ...
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he ...
Nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and ...
Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. ...
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand.
And no reason to talk about the books I read but I still do ...
It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.
I took 2682, halved it to get 1341 and then multiplied it by 10.'Blaise thought about it for a second and realised that her method ...
If you can't do it, don't pledge to do it. Don't be a liar; say only what you can do. It's better for you to ...
You and I are bound. We will be each other's salvation, or each other's doom.
If people are either mountain people or ocean people then I'm a mountain person. I love the ocean, the few times I get a chance ...
I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little ...
I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
They give their hearts away
I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken
Although it seems shocking to say so, grief is a funny thing. On the one hand, you're numb, yet on the other, something inside is ...
I had a connoisseur's ... appreciation of fear.
I'm going to end up like my mother. She left it too late to remember who she actually was before she became a wife.
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
I think if a person is really, truly in love then it has to be unconditional.
Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured ...
Be loving, kind, and pure like a flower.
That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite ...
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest ...
Events that look unfortunate or challenging at the human level are actually taking us to higher levels in the evolution of our soul.
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to ...
Life is not worth living if you forget to love.
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and ...
I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and ...
Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
Everybody can be desirable if they take care of themselves.
Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.
If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's ...
The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.
I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more ...
Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be ...
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% ...
Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; ...
Those who betray me only do so once.
A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.
At any moment, life has the capacity to change, good or bad. To believe we have control over where or when these things happen is ...
Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.
Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what ...
In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, ...
The human species and the global economy may well keep growing, but many more individuals may live in hunger and want.
We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
One day blurs into the next, one week is indistinguishable from another. Their existence consists of waiting for the weekend, then waiting for retirement, and ...
The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in ...
Q. 920. {265} Is the Mass the same sacrifice as that of the Cross? A. The Mass is the same sacrifice as that of the ...
Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely ...
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 ...
Your time is the life you have at a particular moment
The imagination is our inspiration, that's what makes dreams possible.
Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.
Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!
They taught me that there was value in trying to fix something even when everyone else has given up.
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
And if I've got to die, I want to die an editor.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
There is power in words. What you say is what you get.
You need people who score goals. That's how you win games
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a ...
Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
Every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act ...
Ultimately, what we're looking for is someone who's enough of a morally flexible gasbag to get over with the money people, and then also charming ...
Once lost, they are rarely found.
Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
It is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them - especially when you were ...
Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.
This was what true fear wasthat you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
You're going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you've committed, see if you can ...
The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.
Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.
The funny thingaboutadvice is,we always tellothersthe thingswecannotreally doourselves.
You may look in front of you, and on both sides, if you like,' said the sheep: 'but you can't look ALL round you - ...
I couldn't even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita's sadness.