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The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.

So as you can see, counters don't work on us. Actually it's more like he's too lazy to move." ~Kenichi Okamura & Kensuke Fukui

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome.

It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one ...

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including - most significantly - ...

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ...

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until ...

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown ...

I love you, Brooklynn. I love you like no one else ever can or ever will. You will always be mine and if the day ...

If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be ...

Humourists lead ... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they ...

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

I spent your Wish on that doucheface," I said into his chest."Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and ...

Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. "The ...

Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ...

If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand.

Translation, it read: But you will not even need to fight. Take your positions; then stand still and watch the LORD's victory. He is with ...

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this ...

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get ...

It was heartbreaking to see old Ossis trying to ape the thinking of Wessis, trying to master the lingo of capitalist self-promotion.

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not ...

Will try to find the original intent of the biblical rule or teaching and follow that to the letter.

But shall we be happy, to say that we live in the dusk rather than in the full night? Shall we rejoice that we shall ...

I can clap with one hand.

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in ...

Day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the ...

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our ...

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

It's not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

In real life, you only get one shot at the homicide crime scene.

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life ...

People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website ...

Every Ontarian deserves to have a stable, affordable home. As we update our Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, I want to hear your views on how ...

Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, ...

There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige ... ... and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology ...

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that ...

Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor ...

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth ...

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to ...

I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, ...

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie ...

I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful ...

The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet ...

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're ...

There's no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.''Good, because I didn't mean to. It's a habit with females, that's all, ...

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google ...

Onanists breaking a sweat on monkeys, ponies, birds;

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.

The digital clock that sat on the empty bookcase blinked insistently in the dim room. It was an hour and thirty-five minutes off, but Archie ...

It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super ...

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's ...

Dai Tregarron had called her Olwen, had spoken to her as if she were a creature capable of escape from the commonplace, not the pedestrian, ...

I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the ...

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.[Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, ...

I've swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I'm still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited by sixty-seven moons.

I was shameless in my supermarket-shelf mass-market taste. I loved King, Evanovich, Grisham and Brown. I won't lie; the oficial-looking filing cabinet in the corner ...

The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list ...

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part ...

No dancer, not even the wind, can outdance the sea.

P. T. Forsyth's book Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. These are its opening words: 'It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture ...

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be ...

Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.

In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot ...

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major ...

Anything happening," she whispered."Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?" he asked, in the same low tone.She nodded, accepting the rebuke. "Aside from ...

22And Samuel said, w Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, x ...

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.

You must feel comfortable with that fly rod in your hand before you spend time, money, and emotional capital on a fishing trip.

One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't ...

I want him and even if it's frightening, even if I may not be completely ready for a relationship, I want him. Now ... And ...

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who ...

The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.

Rooks were cawing somewhere, and bells were ringing, and from the oxpens the steady beat of a gas engine announced the ascent of the evening ...

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty ...

Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of "superfluous" money, the result ...

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

I'd play music on the street, especially in developing nations where a lot of kids couldn't wear shoes. In order to relate with kids that ...

Don't make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery'er than a huntin' dog that's tree'd it's squirrel.

The Los Angeles Times surmised that "hippies, property owners, . . . and police are involved in a conflict with social overtones that far transcend ...

Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had ...

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.