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After all, if a community could reach some sort of an equilibrium without having to be guided by an outsider, then so much the better.
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career ...
The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. ...
Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them ...
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, ...
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any ...
When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was ...
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but ...
When Mary has struck her roots in a soul, she produces there marvels of grace, which she alone can produce, because she alone is the ...
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. ...
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
Interiors PCG is ranked amongst the leading office interior fit out companies in Dubai, UAE and offers you proven expertise in interior design fit out ...
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace ...
The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on ...
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the ...
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the ...
Before I met Oscar, I was fine. But then I met him, and I knew him, and I loved him, and he died, and after ...
Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.
There will be times when it seems that it would be best to just call him and see how he's doing. Don't deceive yourself, you ...
I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than ...
I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is standing out ...
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the ...
We create ourselves as we go along
"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?
He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the ...
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming ...
The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and ...
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the ...
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. ...
In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard
Getting hurt physically, failing, persevering, and succeeding (despite overwhelming odds) are key factors in a male's growth toward manhood.
Otto Warburg had, half a century before, proposed that oxidation was the cause of many cancers.
In the case of money, subjective use-value and subjective exchange-value coincide. Both are derived from objective exchange-value, for money has no utility other than that ...
The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.
My eyes locked on his and I seemed to get caught in his gaze. We didn't speak, I just looked at his handsome face and ...
I hit her. I'm not one for hitting women . . . or anyone else for that matter. In fact I'm not one for hitting ...
If you really don't care what an audience thinks, make a home movie and show it on your wall.
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write about it in ...
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, ...
The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than ...
I outwit them, and then I outhit them
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe ...
Overmedication: We're killing ourselves. Degrading often unseen & often unfelt our kidneys, livers, vital organs. Until it's too late. And we croak. Kidney failure, heart ...
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea
Vulnerability always comes with risks, but its rewards are deep.
Those men, they're built differently. They love differently, and they need different things. We're the same way. This is the life we know, and while ...
I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the ...
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.To the latecomers are left the bones.
I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The ...
While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's ...
Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living under occupation must ...
In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact ...
But poets don't want homes do they? they are not creatures of hearths and firedogs, but of heaths and ranging hounds. ...
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart ...
If u r self-inspired to turn idle curiosity into an active quest, u r living at the fullest else ordianarism prevails.
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's ...
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 ...
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes ...
Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. ...
Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your ...
Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I ...
She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to ...
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
When employees and employers, even coworkers, have a commitment to one another, everyone benefits. I have people who have been in business with me for ...
The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running ...
Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time ...
I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.
All this is full. All that is full. From fullness, fullness comes. When fullness is taken from fullness, Fullness still remains. OM shanti shanti shanti
Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where ...
I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. ...
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].
Waiting for him I check behind me, to be sure I haven't accidentally activated my backup tank of oxygen, and that's when I notice the ...
I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of ...
When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and an oboist, but ...
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, ...
OVERREACTING" sounds like "OVARYACTING" Coincidence? I think NOT!!
Aye: though we hunted high and low,And hunted everywhere,Of the three men's fate we found no traceOf any kind in any place,But a door ajar, ...
A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.
Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the ...
The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by revealing ...
I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the ...