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The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and ...

Would you be perfect?Then do not pick and choose.Accept everything as it comes.Like the perfect ones, you will dwell in the lightand work in the ...

Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the ...

When you're a part of society there are certain behaviors that aren't okay. If you do these behaviors and then feel nothing, that's worse. But ...

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to ...

I need coffee to deal with this, and I'm not getting decaf.

The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I ...

Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. ...

Nevertheless, after an hour in the tub drinking alone, I felt no closer to solving my dilemma. Instead I was left with an empty bottle ...

Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in ...

There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great ...

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, ...

It was a harbinger of the metric system.

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, ...

It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master ...

Idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at ...

You're back," she said."I'm leaving again.""To steal more grain from a captured country estate?"His smile was perfectly mischievous. "Rebels must eat.""And I suppose you use ...

Always remember present perfect, grasshopper.

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of ...

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True ...

I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.

It's easy, Constance. All you have to do is believe." "Believe in what, Alice?" "Madness." I pull her tighter and jump.

In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is ...

Please report to Supreme Commander Leo for your superfun list of chores!

Did you know - then?" asked Harry."Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.

What I want the most right damn now it to forget, for one day, that I'm your boss so I can make love to you ...

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Memory's only like justice, because it is another wrong idea that makes people feel right.

My career's had a lot of ups and downs. Once I started playing with John Peers in 2013, that gave me a huge lift, a ...

Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell it's ...

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)

Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name "Paradox".Museum thought it was dead and cut off ...

Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, 'It's so bitter.''What, ...

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

People in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should

Shun artificial rocks like the plague.

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is ...

Ben Says: Make up your mind & do away with your fears or your fears will do away with you!

Home court will be tremendous. That will be a big relief, playing at home in front of the energy and the fans.

If there is any form of prejudice, racism, sexism, economic/political divide etc. involved in trade, it is usually administered in the ability to trade.

Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor ...

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and ...

Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.

He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the ...

It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.

Authors ... keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less depressed ...

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I ...

A nightmare is the best kind of dream. The only one that brings happiness when it ends.

My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by ...

Love is a flower of mind.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he ...

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work,

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

Sometimes people go through a lifetime of pain by holding a secret that could have changed everything. It is an intoxicating addiction, an act of ...

If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can ...

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.

Ryan chuckled. "You're going to be my trouble this year, aren't you?" he asked softly. Hell yeah I was.

He was a bloody genius with these people, slicker than any confidence artist, more popular than whisky in a room full of Irishmen.

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when ...

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or ...

Roger Goodell is doing his job. He's front office. Whatever he says goes, and I'll leave it at that.

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

A glance, a word and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

You're crazy," pronounced Becks."And you're carrying eight guns," I replied. "Now that we've covered what everybody knows, can we move on?

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the ...

They would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had ...

Nothing drives men crazier than the inability to possess.

You might be a redneck if someone tells you you have something in your teeth, and you take them out to see what it is.

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that ...

Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

More than the sum of our experiences, our memories are the ultimate proof of reality.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

The conclusion I dread is not, "So there's no God after all," but, "So this is what God's really like.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a ...

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed ...

People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.