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Success is not genetic neither is failure hereditary ; it is the passion to strive further that counts .
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 thought you would like something a touch more substantial after weeks of eating nothing but"-she picked up a box of Pop-Tarts, squinting at the ...
Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this ...
It looks like you're mocking me as if I am a girl who still believes in Santa Claus. Emily says.
Don't let small people keep you from pursuing your big dreams.
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually ...
To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.[Lat., Simul flare ...
Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?""Peng you," I say."Peng you," she says, only instead of pung ...
Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human ...
You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to ...
No person is ever truly their online or media persona. For better or for worse, the human condition, desires, and faults are so much more ...
The Marquis had known whom he had wanted not to be, when he was a boy. He had definitely not wanted to be like Peregrine. ...
It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of ...
I hold her hair in one hand and massage the back of her neck with my other while she performs what can only be described ...
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing ...
Light to darkness, Jenny. Darkness to light. It's always been that way.
For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on ...
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. ...
If two people are destined to be together, they will bump to each other and fall in love in the RIGHT PLACE and in the ...
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why ...
You can't order me away, you pissant human--" "I just did." Kas swept past him...
Really. It's plain for anyone to see that he cares for you. His eyes rarely leave you and he's terribly attentive. I'm positive he's in ...
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to ...
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have ...
Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ...
Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and ...
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never ...
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political ...
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
This is why we're here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see.
I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil ... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a ...
If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, ... The FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress ...
While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ.
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've ...
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.
Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of ...
The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any ...
One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long ...
Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens
Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with ...
An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone ...
We are never entirely sure about each other's powers. It's all a game. I would no more have asked him how he got here, or ...
Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because ...
Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to ...
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
At the ed of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque: ASCLEPIUS MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ...
Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. ...
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
The real rain dance is when the rain dances.
I'm very active on Twitter and Instagram. I'm always posting pictures from set, and little clues and teasing people with fun things. It's awesome!
In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).
A river so clear and transparent that the bright stones suspended within its currents could be seen with the naked eye, glittering with the traces ...
I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing ...
To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. ...
Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout ...
So good you forgot your name tag, Michelle. Something only an unprofessional idiot would do. Not the behavior of a lady I'd want working in ...
I kinda like it that I can stand on my own," I said with a smirk. "Let's not make it a habit, ok? I'm not ...
Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus.
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. ...
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.
Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll ...
It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least ...
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of ...
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came ...
I've missed you, princess," Cameron whispers against my ear then nibbles on my earlobe. The
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy ...
I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like ...
A SWOT analysis involves asking, What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?
Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.
In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'
Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.
Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on ...
It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work ...
The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.
By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to ...
If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He ...
I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued their active role ...
The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or ...
I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous. Nothing ...
He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you ...
The indifferent pendulum of the clock kept chopping off the seconds of life, calmly and precisely.
It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.
And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states ...
Every band is allowed to do things how they want - including getting on stage in pink pasiley suits and doing TIP TOE THROUGH THE ...
Did you just mentally pistol whip that guy, with his own gun? Nice, Amber. I would have just killed him.
How can you get tired of playing golf?
You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future - nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, ...
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have ...
I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.
Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like ...
As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.
Jenny and I were like peas and carrots.
I had long ago learned to ignore things I could not resolve. Whenever I was faced with such choices, something always occured to tip the ...