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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. ...
I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.
Today, it felt like time should be measured by how much of the future she had left, and needed to be counted forward. She felt ...
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the ...
The fact that God knows everything does not mean that He is directly causing everything. He respects our freedom at our level. He makes it ...
I'm not as I was but at this present moment I have to say, I feel very envious of someone who's young and active and ...
In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was ...
Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've ...
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, ...
The witch raised one careful eyebrow. "I? I want nothing," she told Hazel. "Don't you see? I want nothing.
Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more.
One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...
No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have ...
Let's see what my options are," he said, then slid open the drawer. Holy shit. It was like a fiesta of sex toys. "I think ...
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer ...
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.
The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly ...
I look down at the woman on her knees in front of me - her eyes wide and filled with lust. She sticks out her ...
His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning ...
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes ...
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the ...
That a healthy BDSM or kink relationship involves building a deep trust in each other, open and honest communication, using safewords, negotiating and sharing your ...
Beauty is an ultimate value - something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be ...
This rootless shifting east and west I can't suppress a smile myself but how else can I make the whole world my home. If any ...
Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely ...
I don't know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I'm not one of them," I whispered, on the verge ...
All hells in this world are the prisons you make in your own heart; all battles must be fought there'," said Charlie. "My grandma used ...
Again - "Are you going home for Christmas?" - and asked it in some sort of way that brought tears to my eyes and made ...
I can't name just one example. Then there's only one.
That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean this ...
Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance ...
Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be ...
She charms by her eyes and slays with her tongue.
So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you ...
****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is ...
Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed ...
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was ...
The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and ...
Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love ...
In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of ...
There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need ...
[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the ...
By focusing on one pattern - what is known as a "keystone habit" - Lisa had taught herself how to reprogram the other routines in ...
What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that ...
God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.
It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So ...
I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.
But I was no philosopher, and the sun was beginning to let me know that it was the hour when only mad dogs and Englishmen ...
Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and ...
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do ...
Who has ever heard of a maid and a concierge making use of their afternoon break to ponder the cultural significance of interior decoration? You ...
Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.
I fall asleep thinking there is no better elixir than travel. Old things always bored me, boredom always scared me, while travel - travel is ...
I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be ...
We try to conceal our defects and say the things we think the other one wants to hear. We pretend that we're always lovely and ...
I see no human beings. My phone never rings. I'm so very old and so very lonely. I hear from no one.
The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a ...
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an ...
There are more organisms living on the skin of a single human than there are humans living on earth * * * There are more ...
I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the ...
The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.
Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your ...
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality ...
Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the ...
The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines ...
I am here and now in all this Omnipresent , i am the universe.
Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.
I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get ...
The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.
I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like ...
A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were ...
You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism that comes from ...
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have ...
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.
I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are ...
It's pretty satisfying to use an image when you don't have a great articulate response. And to be able to customize emoji? Imagine if you ...
Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good.
It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a ...
Naomi's a good person," Amos said. "I like her, you know? Like my kid sister, only smart and I'd do her if she let me. ...
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased ...
Whoever convinces himself that he is not worthy of first position has doomed himself to failure from the very beginning.
We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.
Every day life is a miraculous.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not ...
You might be alone at the moment ... But someday ... You'll definitely find nakama! No one is born in this world to be alone!