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I developed my personality to acquire freedom to do the things that I could learn somehow.
I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next ...
The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and ...
It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the ...
I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.
You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
Our relationship with our own thoughts dictates how enjoyable all of our relationships in life will be.
Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come ...
If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is.
We drove through the Old Dominion University campus, where a small permanent lake has formed in the back corner of a huge parking lot. "You ...
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, ...
As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, ...
Human beings are children of the Earth. Whereas our common Mother Earth has tolerated our conduct up to now, she is showing us at present ...
I would love to do something on the other side of the world. I'd trade places with some guy on a ranch in Australia and ...
Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they ...
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality ...
It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.
I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry ...
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
Many of us overvalue autonomy, the strength to stand alone, the capacity to act independently. Far too few of us pay attention to the virtues ...
No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good ... she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get ...
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.
Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, ...
Make life your playground, not your battlefield.
In my line of work every man wears exactly one outfit khakis, a late night with Jimmy Fallon t-shirt, and a hooded sweatshirt. If you ...
I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or ...
It seemed that I was the only one who cared about me.
The poor soul would have been 100 - if he'd lived another twelve years. Apparently he asked to be scattered over the place where he ...
We didn't know anything about Judy Murray until we met her, but once we got to know her, we found she was an absolute scream.
I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn't show ...
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many ...
How can one find the first moment of love? When,in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?
The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.
The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their ...
Pills n potions.. We're overdosin.. I'm angry but I still love you
That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge ...
I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I ...
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record ...
The notion that you can come to church on Sunday and bend your knee in worship when in fact you have not done so during ...
I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation ... I believe that our children and their ...
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability ...
The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.
Coward is the most misused word in our society.
I do know what my first meal in the next world would be ... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this ...
All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, ...
I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a ...
I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming ...
There is an intemporal which works on the inside of time, which is, rather, omnitemporal.
People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera ...
Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King.
What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to ...
The French, than whom - it's a very than-whom people all round - none can be more vacuously orotund, are (the same ones) obligingly terse. ...
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in ...
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild ...
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 ...
Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with ...
It did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at ...
O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on ...
If people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding
(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed) ...
We banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of ...
She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
I'm a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic.
It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]
She's not as pretty as you," I said"But she's a simpler girl," my mother whispered.
I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the ...
Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum.
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's ...
Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive ...
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something ... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I ...
No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.
We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.
I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after much too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterwards ...
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a ...
It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his ...
I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and ...
Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,Don't care about culture, they only want profit.If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped ...
In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up stars of fretted ...
I heard that you could help me.""Me? That's impossible," said Oshino in a joking tone of voice. "Only you can help yourself, ojou-chan.
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS ...
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, ...
Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such "ordainers of the universe" (as they were called by the Sumerians) among the oldest vestiges ...
I like the idea of having many different ways to express myself. There is a part of me as an artist and a creator who ...
Onew hyung usually smiles a lot but when he's serious, I can't stop laughing.
A website without SEO is like a car with no gas
Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what ...
She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of ...
How do you know you told a good punch line, a good joke? It's because they laugh. How do you know you've got a good ...
I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was ...
Make-up? What happened? You look almost female.""Thanks. You look almost straight.