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According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, ...

The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a ...

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ...

We each appear only one time in history. Whatever occurs in our life will never occur again. Our life is significant and worthy of living ...

And the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to ...

Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu ...

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; ...

When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in ...

A word of encouragement is like light to one who is in the dark.

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from ...

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

Nothing is too hard for our Lord God. Jesus is "the light of the world" (John 9:5) and "the light shines in the darkness and ...

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to ...

It had to be one of the worst hurts in the entire world - being embarrassed by someone who was meant to protect you, not ...

And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no ...

The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a ...

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I ...

But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, ...

I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie ...

When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device ...

We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are ...

Everyday I receive a lesson that teaches me that I can't let what others think of me define me.

If he wakes up, I swear I'll do anything. I'll open gates, I'll help all the paranormals, I'llnever judge people wearing Crocs again. Just let ...

He meditated on the the use to which he should devote that power of youth which is granted to man only once in a lifetime: ...

Two heads are definitely better than one and by brainstorming as a team and sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of ...

Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just ...

No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take ...

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set ...

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is ...

Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think ...

THAT WASN'T A SPEED BUMP!!!

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

Once you label me you negate me.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So ...

That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

A while ago, I wished upon a shooting star that one day I'd find someone to love ... and now holding you in my arms ...

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life ...

Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you ...

We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's ...

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

She's an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which ...

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create ...

It's not a dream, But the reality that makes our passion As a lamp shadow - no - no lamp, the sun. What the world's ...

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or ...

Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee ...

If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

We labor hard for certain but the work is rote and our tomorrows are mostly settled and the way we love one another is cast ...

In order to run, an engine must have spark, fuel, and at least 60 psi of compression. One or more of these prerequisites is lacking ...

Falling apart is curling up into a fetal position and staying in bed for a week. What you were doing is having the emotional response ...

I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed ...

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of ...

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse ...

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, ...

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub ...

Is it? Because that picture of me was taken by my old school's yearbook club, and they put it in the section titled 'STUDENT FAILSAUCES! ...

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is ...

Roda?" asked, combining his name with Yoda's.

I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through ...

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. ...

The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes ...

Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be ...

One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...

Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I ...

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school ...

Puszcza, an old Polish word, means "forest primeval." Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the half-million acres of the Bialowieza Puszcza contain Europe's last ...

I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.

Don't focus on the mountain; focus instead on the mountain mover! HS/el

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand ...

(On "Following") We've got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made.

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like ...

As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to ...

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I ...

Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against ...

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.

While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack ...

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the ...

What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.

I will get your some clothes, a sword, and your very own assassin to join you on your quest.""Ooh, just what I've always wanted. A ...

In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring ...

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a ...

You slept-on top of the blanket," he said."Uh, yeah.""Were you trying to protect my honor?" He asked, and his smile spread from cheek to cheek.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started ...

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.

Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated.

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be ...

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. ...

Simon gave Clary a look that was supposed to mean: This is weird. She responded with a very clear look of response that said: Superweird.

A study published in the October 22, 2014, issue of the journal Neuron suggests that the brain's chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us ...