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I wanted to be understood. As a human-being, and as a writer. That meant getting to (truly) know myself- away from the opinions, beliefs, assumptions, ...
Drop the mind that thinks in prose; revive another kind of mind that thinks in poetry Put aside all your expertise in syllogism; let songs ...
In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about ...
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're ...
No one can ever win by defeating someone; you only win by letting someone win.
Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that ...
That's easy to say until the person you love is happy with someone else. Girls always choose men, and men always choose the wrong girls. ...
My name is Daniel Lugo, and I believe in fitness
It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has ...
The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried ...
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal ...
If a relative has suffered Ovarian or Breast Cancer, get the genetic screening. It saves lives.
What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in the Middle East ...
You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art ...
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over ...
He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA ...
I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady ...
According to an OGPU report, so many livestock had been slaughtered in the Central Black Earth Region that peasants were feeding pigs with meat.
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and ...
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...
Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its ...
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 ...
Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to ...
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a ...
Only afterward did the guilt set inthe guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.
I amar prestar aen. Han mathon ne nen. Han mathon ne chae. A hoston ned 'wilith.""Don't rich people difficult = Jangan kaya orang susah.
Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.
The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.
The sixth doorway is the Doorway of Vision. This relates to seeing with the eyes of love and corresponds to the energy center located in ...
The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.
Always imitated, never duplicated, never new being me could be so complicated
Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. Consider all the scandals facing the Obama administration, ...
These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly ...
London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions ...
It's not only the wealth of sounds in Omnisphere; You're struck by the fact that you hear magic sound after magic sound.
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.
Unlike a lot of other game companies that, once they launch a game, downsize their teams radically, our plan is to keep the team together ...
Want a sugar cube? [ ... ] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas you ...
I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.
At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless ofcultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, whatremains its critically profound gift to the ...
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get ...
You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you've got one you're trying to argue it away. People who don't believe in ...
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
People moved past us, faceless humans who trudged through their own tragedies every day. How was mine so different?
One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. ...
When you really know someone, you can't hate him.
It wasn't the first time I played on death's porch, but it didn't mean that I was used to it either. It was weird how ...
If there were a Jessica Chase instruction manual, it would be written backwards in Arabic Pig Latin and twelve thousand pages long with random pages ...
If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the ...
If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, ...
Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths.
The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the ...
Well I beat things around with my stick once in awhile.
It's very strange to be completely naked in public," said Jacob. "It isn't something Americans ordinarily do.""I can't say it's very English, either," replied Henry."It's ...
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 ...
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and ...
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your ...
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless ...
By their subtle reversal of all images, mirrors seemed to be windows to another world in opposistion to this one, a world where everything appeared ...
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the ...
And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the ...
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a ...
You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.
Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for ...
The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that they can belong ...
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations ...
I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a ...
He was an Atlantean ... older than dirt and dirt's great-grandfather.
I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers ...
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking ...
I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me ...
There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record ...
World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered ...
What becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?
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 ...
One thing I know for certain is that this killer - the Reaper - isn't my white knight. In fact, in this story, I very ...
One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something ...
I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake ...
Exercise II.Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:Dear Diary,I ...
I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording ...
III Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want ...
Edward Progers was his Majesty's Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King's ...
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order ...
Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome ... no one ...
While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm ...
A bite." She touched the hilt of her sword, the sword that he had given her. Oathkeeper. "My lord, you gave me a quest.
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it ...
The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go ...
However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make ...
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems ...
As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.
As a result of our reliance on nutrient-poor processed foods, the majority of Americans are overfed, undernourished, and running on empty.
The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles ...