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I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.

Epicurus ... supposes not only all mixt bodies, but all others to be produced by the various and casual occursions of atoms, moving themselves to ...

Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to ...

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the ...

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong ...

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

At the end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure. Ruth

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to ...

The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality ...

Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little ...

I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth ...

Days turn to night. The ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have.

We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...

But thinkin' you owe people is dangerous business.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a ...

Syd's strafing run at Florennes had been a feat of strafing skill. His cine-gun footage of the radar van was perfect. It showed radar operators ...

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal ...

In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It ...

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

The Word says God put ever star in the heavens and even give ever one of em a name. If one of em was gon' ...

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day.

Ojiisan says if you want to understand a people, look at their language. The words write the history, not the other way around.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five ...

It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what ...

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was ...

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

Even the European critics ... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

So long, I've been looking too hard, I've been waiting too long Sometimes I don't know what I will find, I only know it's a ...

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me ...

In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her ...

He was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people ...

Now Sally plunged her abruptly into the full strangeness of this place, with its rot and randomness rooting towers taller than any in Tokyo, corporate ...

Cromwell saw that the destruction of these men would not only ruin Ormonde's military power, but spread a helpful terror throughout the island. He therefore ...

Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to ...

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make ...

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long ...

Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent ...

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. ...

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

I never got over you either," I ocnfess, and he draws in a deep breath. "It's because I never would let you go. You felt ...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea - When you have obstructive sleep apnea, you stop breathing for seconds or even minutes while you are sleeping. Usually, you stop ...

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony ...

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life ...

He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks at it too clearly.

Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had ...

Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others ...

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs ...

I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine ...

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on ...

G Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! h According to his great mercy, i he has caused us to be ...

You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back ...

The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and 'pure geometries' are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail ...

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path ...

I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, ...

Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace.

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. (And) I didn't seek this job but I want ...

A one sided friendship brings exhaustion and there's no one deserves to be sucked dry.

Old friends are memories personified.

I am alone, as I have always been; abandoned not by men, that would not pain me, but by the happy spirits of joy who ...

Grotesque character of everyday occurrences conceals from one the real misery of passions. BARNAVE While ...

As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will ...

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all ...

About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only ...

My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon ...

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try ...

One chapter of my life seemed to have ended; perhaps the whole book was closing. Instead of being the pastoral figure aiding a life transition, ...

You miss Azemmur, she said.Yes, I said. And I have grown so used to the pain of missing it that sometimes I feel as though ...

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

I love Clinique. Their moisturizer is amazing. My skin tends to be really oily, but then at times I'm dry, and that's the perfect amount ...

One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as ...

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 ...

No, no, you have driven me mad! When I thinkthat I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of ...

Theo named his son Theology. But his son changed it to The O to honor his dad, Orafoura. Orafoura is my dad, he is my ...

Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in hand, ...

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

If now the all-mother sends forth her children without protection to a thousand threatening dangers, this can only be because she knows that if they ...

The field as a whole is defined as a system of deviations on different levels and nothing, either in the institutions or in the agents, ...

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see ...

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid ...

Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can ...

The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a ...