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He had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings.

Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!

When you have a grasp on eternity your eyes won't ever see the battle or the lost people that hurt you. You will see a ...

When something looks enough like something else that people watching don't know what it is they're looking at.

The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.

Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, ...

Count Coudenhove-Kalergi put it succinctly in one of his speeches when he declared his ambition that Europe "supersedes democracy" and that democracy be replaced by ...

Payne nailing him in the face woke him up.George brought him back his independence.But Beth handed him his crown.

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

In 1981, while doing postdoctoral field work in cultural anthropology, Bonnie A. Nardi lived with villagers in Western Samoa, trying to understand the cultural reasons ...

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do ...

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand ...

You must be this tall," I said, leveling my hand well above his stocky height, "to ride this ride." I blew him a kiss and ...

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Every path is a journey to God. We just have to remember to open our heart again and again...

My name is "A Pimp named Slickback" Wait ... A Pimp?? ... Named Slickback. Yes, please say the whole thing if you would. Yes, that ...

You don't have to be positive all the time. It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn't make ...

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is ...

There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't ...

DJs are the new rock stars.

I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity ...

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

Tony got up from his desk and crouched down beside her. She was instantly aware of the smell of him, a mixture of shampoo and ...

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about ...

We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted not my hand held by an old smoothie.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal ...

If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more ...

You look concerned." Books turned the wheel to screw down the press. "It's my new normative state," Amaranthe said.

I just have to give credit when it's due because there are some things that took place in my life that I couldn't explain at ...

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of ...

Morality says it all.Petra Hermans

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the ...

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would ...

It's amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces.

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Later that night she picked the polish offwith her front teeth until the bed you sharedfor seven years seemed speckled with glitterand blood.

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to ...

It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.

Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetimewhen they can't take their richesto the grave.- Gwallawg is Other

Through "posts" and "sharing," by exhibiting one's loves and tastes, personal stories, photos, and more, each "curates" a public image of oneself on the web, ...

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out ...

For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching ...

I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight.

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one ...

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had ...

Once you asked me what I'm thinking,I lay back and think of England.

The discordant principals' duet is like the nocturnal emission of a cancerous horse tethered in its dolorous slumber to a barbed aluminum fence during an ...

In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, ...

Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to engage with us ...

When you come to me, wear these. On a good day, prettily.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try ...

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of ...

Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.

We're part of each other's lives. We're in each other's stories.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

It brought his heart joy to be able to do so much for her and he welcomed the opportunity to be able to show her ...

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written ...

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

Fear is sinful when it is rooted in selfishness rather than love.

Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary ...

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke ...

Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold ...

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

Half, Not Half-Assed

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

To finally meet Alayna's eyes. Though I'm torn and uncertain, there is one truth that does not waver - I am in love with Alayna ...

We think cheating, in reasonable amounts, is okay. These

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Guy Boy Man," says Baby Doll15. "Violence is not the answer."I look down the hallway, steely eyed. "Then I don't like the question." Sweetie and ...

Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to ...

This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars ...

Two halves make one whole. It's not important if those two halves are exactly the same.

George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because ...

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Happy people attract other happy people. Show the world your smile, and the world will smile back.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than ...

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Sammy is Upoopia!" my baby shouted and clapped his hands, instantly bringing all the furniture in the room to life. Couches and chairs upended their ...

The principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy. Not

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

I always loved watching and reading family-friendly mysteries growing up, like the shows Murder, She Wrote and Nancy Drew, and am thrilled to be bringing ...

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

Don't ever, ever give up. Moses was once a basket case.

Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.

I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. ...

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those ...

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

To me, pictures are about memory.

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for ...

With every step I