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Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

Do it for the fat lady!

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

I have it. She got into the passenger seat of the security van.

Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. ...

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

Once you get very clear about the things that are the most important to you in your life, those things that truly give meaning and ...

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy.

If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, ...

We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our ...

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action ...

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who ...

[R]equests from the corporation were never really requests. They were commandments wearing their best Sunday clothes.

Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes ...

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away ...

....the longer I look, the more convinced I am she's the perfect storm and I'm lost at sea."-Andrew

I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose ...

I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a flower, though they ...

Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war ...

I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin ...

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely ...

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, ...

I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative ...

Stars are better off without us.

No Eden valid without serpent.

I don't remember, and I don't want to remember. I've been a victim, and once you have, you need to do whatever it takes not ...

I never gave up rapping - it gave up on me. There was no industry and no appetite for UK rap back then and I ...

Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to ...

If you work out, you will loss weight.

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a ...

A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them but ...

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the ...

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

I'm neither a good cop nor a bad cop, Jerome. Like yourself, I'm a complex amalgam of positive and negative personality traits that emerge or ...

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

The straw-coated floor crunched beneath her boots, a cool breeze sweeping in from where the roof had been ripped half off thanks to Sorrel's bull. ...

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's ...

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because ...

I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like ...

Be friendly but not chummy with your lawyers.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society post-capitalist.

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.

Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, ...

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

If I had some of Jesus' tools, I'd build a big house that has no rules. And a bed that's big enough for 13 babies, ...

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. ...

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present ...

With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through ...

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

God, buses are so ugly when you see them that close.

I inhaled his scent. He was near, a few feet away. Lust nearly buckled my knees. He was a tireless lover. There was nothing off-limits ...

We let people invent us as they please, he thinks. The truth we keep to ourselves.

To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness ...

Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet ...

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book

Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ... ... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to ...

18Because the LORD was very angry with Israel, he swept them away from his presence.

In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than ...

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, ...

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came ...

I began to murmur the Lord's Prayer in thanks."Shit," Mrs. Parsall said.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. ...

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing "mere" ...

The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of ...

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to ...

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd ...

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

For about ten minutes the vengeful crew proceed to maim, strangle, poison, burn, stomp, blind and otherwise have at Pasquale, while he describes intimately his ...

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.

Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without ...

I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the ...

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible ...

He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) ...

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires ...

Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet ...

Controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day - would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than ...

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and ...

I am Psmith. I sub-edit.

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core ...

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective that needing narcotics ...

Fulfilling your destiny is like going on an errand assignment. You must run it to make it meaningful. You don't become who you should become ...