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If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid ...
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...
To be believed make the truth unbelievable.
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
But the technology is only trivial retrospectively - not prospectively.
Gaea?" Leo shook his head. "Isn't that Mother Nature? She's supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear ...
One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.
Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We ...
For politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not
All part of the service.
If no cat has more to say, we should end this Gathering," Firestar meowed. "Fine by me," Blackstar replied. Onestar and Leopardstar nodded.
We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.
I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and ...
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections ...
Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the ...
Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every ...
I used to think I'd like to have been a pioneer on the Oregon Trail, experience untamed America.
Sex and love went together like bad boys and leather, and with Ryder, she couldn't do one without the other. She could lie to herself ...
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so ...
When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, ...
Warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said,
When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, ...
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!
My hero- is the Son of Adon Olam. He has already atoned for the evils that have been done. He did His best- the absolute ...
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
The mind has the Propensity to Excel along the Path of least resistance thereby ostracising other equally important "concepts" It is this lack of restrictions ...
I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.
Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, ...
We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic ...
The authorities make them hate him. Otsu, these people are simple. They're afraid of the government, so afraid that if it so decrees, they'll drive ...
When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring ...
I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone ...
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or ...
The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
Oh, God, I know I am a sinner. I am sorry for my sins, and I want to turn from them. I trust Christ alone ...
Her down. She was limited by biology and her flightsuit. Dwelling on her own constraints gave Molly another crazy idea. She recognized the old Tchung ...
She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even though he assured her he wasn't, ...
To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone ...
You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you ...
An image system is a strategy of motifs, a category of imagery embedded in the film that repeats in sight and sound from beginning to ...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
In those jaws of swift destruction, like another Jonah (by which name they indeed called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their ...
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
Sweet and clean out-of-doors, and I need purifying. My wanderings disturb Lucy. She is always on the lookout for me, in the hall or living-room ...
Dar's been through enough in his life, and his legs are only a small part of it. Don't play with him, Cassie. If you're not ...
I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...
Don't let anyone else define what you can or can't do. The choice is yours.
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
If you're wondering, is this book for me? Well, if you're the kind of reader who orders another round just to see if you can ...
Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use ...
[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself ...
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 ...
The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I ...
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and ...
I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
I'm just saying, as someone who occasionally rigs fights, I'm offended by the lack of professionalism.
Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or ...
2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God ...
I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.
Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.
An opulent priest is a contradiction.
But every longtime cop will tell you that the criminals who scared him most were the ones who looked and talked like the rest of ...
My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline.
I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.
I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed.
If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.
Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One ...
Overloading the HPA axis, especially in infancy and childhood, produces all kinds of serious and long-lasting negative effects - physical, psychological, and neurological.
I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for ...
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of ...
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin
'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I ...
It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no ...
We shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing ...
Ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.
It was me, Austin. It was me all along, Austin!
The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.
Of course she will put on a cap,' said Sophie, with a pitying look. 'How could she possibly receive strange gentlemen without a cap? But ...
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ...
This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my ...
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
There's no such thing as a good death ... It's just a dull, stupid thing we all have to do eventually. To ask meaning of ...
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.
To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it ...
By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.
Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.
Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More ...
Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by ...