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I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
He will only be gone from the school when none are loyal to him.
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play ...
Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. ...
The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have ...
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
It's just so impressive to see how the women have used making Fair Trade clothes to escape poverty and empower themselves and their children. - ...
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were ...
Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by ...
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I saw in a flash that if I shrank from this there would at once be less Queen and more Orual in me.
The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.
We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.
Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theatre. It is a theatre, after all.
If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, ...
No more crying. Tears only cause destructivefloods. When you are sad, you build a boat.
Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was ...
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this ...
When we speak of the Church as the Body of Christ we are saying that it is given such union with Christ that it becomes ...
There are seven billion people living on Earth and countless other creatures and they all have billions of dreams, trillions of dreams or sextillions or ...
The yearbook voted me most likely to be scraped off an onramp by a puking fireman.
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
Oohrah, kiddo," Chester said quietly. Ty smiled and squeezed his eyes shut as tears trailed down his face. "Oohrah, Gunny.
Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the ...
We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You can't taste it. ...
I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue ...
Deep down Kelly, I think you want me here. I think you're too damn scared to admit you need me. And I think I'm the ...
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.
Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.
Halloween, the one night when we embrace the darkness from which all of America is descended. October is the gateway to the wonderful, mystical finale ...
Our differences are reasons to celebrate.
I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old ...
Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but ...
I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ...
With the illusion stripped away, I could see that we were part of an ocean of light. We are light flowing, moving, and transmuting shape ...
I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs so we called ...
I think I let go of the need for approval, ... It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more ...
Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel ...
But here's the thing: other people's opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with ...
Again - "Are you going home for Christmas?" - and asked it in some sort of way that brought tears to my eyes and made ...
Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use ...
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent ...
I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.
The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, ...
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right ...
Maybe it's not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could ...
Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove ...
And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.
Anger, Obed Ramotswe had explained to her once, is no more than a salt that we rub into our wounds.
I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost. We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds, until I ...
I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.
I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from ...
The dark and the light, they exist side by side,Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the other.The darkened path is as illuminated as the lightened,Only the fear ...
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
My heart was beating like it was being played by a one-armed Japanese Ondekoza drummer pounding slowly on his seven-hundred-pound drum with a caveman's club ...
The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.
There has been an unwise and spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to grow a goatee, hence a fluffy little tuft of something or other, just underneath the ...
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy ...
People's clothes ought to be buried with them ... They oughtn't to be left behind to be despised.
Zach," I said as I lay there "Where did you go? When you were looking for me?"I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes."Crazy." ...
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.[Lat., Quem ...
My father lied to me! He distorted the events, taking credit, hiding the extent of the brutality and suffering - even Omnius knew it. On ...
That's enough naughty girl," you say in a mocking tone, "I am going to put you over my knee and spank you for being such ...
When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that ...
If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another ...
Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary ...
When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people ...
A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, ...
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't ...
Once you start lying to the public, you have to keep lying. It never ends.
Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's ...
Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.
Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure ...
Everytime Ah see uh patch uh roses uh somethin' oversportin' theyselves makin' out they pretty, Ah tell 'em 'Ah want yuh tuh see mah Janie ...
It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free ...
I was given the name Prospect because people have high hopes for me.
You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something ...
It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.
Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary ...
As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the ...
The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic electrophiles including halides or triflates in the presence of a base provides ...
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless ...
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on ...
[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.
The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk ...
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.