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Nuclear episodes stand out in bold print in life story as narrative high points, low points and turning points, explaining how the person has remained ...

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but ...

We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopeless phonetic spelling.

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand ...

Of course curiosity killed the cat, and even if satisfaction supposedly brought it back, there's still that little problem with the man on the radio ...

Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill ...

I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled ...

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a ...

Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two ...

Prepare ye the way of the Lord

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ...

How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it ... you feel it." - Pooh

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I've imagined. Usually it's better. So, I try not to dream but rather to ...

I use humour a lot because humour is a great equaliser. Everyone laughs at the same things if you set them up properly, and that ...

I am a bit of a goody-goody. Not that there aren't times when I think, I was kind of an (ass) today. I work in ...

My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played ...

If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have ...

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - ...

Plants die off when their roots have no water to sustain them. May your tears feed the roots of love in your heart and bring ...

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their ...

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ...

When we go against the grain and put ourselves and our work out in the world, some people will feel threatened and they will go ...

When faced with a problem, we have two options: solve it or wish for it to go away. If you don't solve it, it will ...

I am attached to an incredible script called 'Wonder Drug,' about the DES drug disaster. It's a female-based drama, and I am so proud to ...

Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could ...

My church wasn't confined to the inside of a building. I carried it around with me everywhere I went.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, ...

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the ...

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be ...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to ...

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they ...

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and ...

Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I ...

We are what God calls us to be. Even if we're not what he's calling us to be, we are. Because he called us.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics ...

The road I have travelled feels right to have found my home in you.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the ...

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know ...

What is the difference between project management and project leadership? Although there is an elusive line between them, the core difference is that management deals ...

Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.

It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in ...

The harder the dick the funner the sex

Castles in the air bow gracefully; Well protected - A little dreaming in pink glasses - Behind every joyful morning is a magical awakening.

When I lift my head, my eyes meet hers and in them, whether she would ever admit it or not, is desire. Lots of hot, ...

Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the ...

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged ...

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

Life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.

Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially ...

Reading only a bit of a great book (e.g., Plato's Republic) is like getting engaged but never marrying. The initial experience is pleasurable but can ...

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the ...

You do get the pregnant mush-brain ... you know what it's like? It's like getting stoned.

I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to ...

How is it possible to protect your loved ones from old heartaches?

He wanted his enemies proud and strong, so that he could cast them further down in his vengeance.

You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at ...

As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when ...

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations ...

Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, ...

Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

Good Punjabi music before a match pumps me up. It gives me a kick.

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. ...

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the ...

Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the ...

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and ...

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That's what makes it so beautiful.

He reminds me of a comfortable sweater that you pull on, knowing it will keep you warm every time.

Please send me a bill for your services through" - he looked at his watch - "through today," he said. "And you'll pay it with ...

The concept of harmony being preserved by the universe itself was obviously to his taste: he was getting old and was afraid of death.

As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of ...

The latest report is that Osama bin Laden has shaved his beard, is wearing Western clothes and has had plastic surgery. Isn't that amazing? The ...

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence these are the features of ...

It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever ...

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier ...

Or maybe Jason's right: there are perfect people, many of them, and it's up to you to grab one when you find each other in ...

As soon as the first piece of foliage came within blade's reach, my student started frantically swinging the machete like he was defending his virtue ...

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a ...

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big ...

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the ...

When you write down a list of "three good things" that happened that day, your brain will be forced to scan the last 24 hours ...