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On Rahel's heart Pappachi's moth snapped open its somber wings. Out. In. And lifted its legs. Up. Down.
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an ...
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who ...
There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all ...
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect ...
The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore ...
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. ...
You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. ...
I watched Maximoff Hale on-screen profess his undying love for Power Ranges and excitedly say, 'I hope that if I have a brother or a ...
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty ...
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent ...
It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.
Well, OK then." He narrowed his eyes. "How about you? Do you have any ... romances I should know about?""Nope. Not one.""Well, good. Excellent. There'll ...
You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to ...
I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in ...
As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop ...
Addiction is a terrible thing.
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his ...
I see a red door and i want it painted black.
Every man and woman present thought how the neatly drawn lines and words upon the maps were in truth ice-covered pools and rivers, silent woods, ...
Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.
Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a ...
It was time for the mirror pep talk."Okay, Maggie," I said to myself after my shower, wiping the steam off the medicine cabinet."You could eat ...
Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change ...
I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is ...
Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you ...
It's not great. What kind of connection is this? A one-way hotline to Pervyville?" I took a step forward, on a roll now. "It's disgusting. ...
I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, ...
Where am I? What the hell difference is it? There's plenty o' fresh air and the moon fur a glim. Don't be so damn pertic'lar!
Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?
Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to ...
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: ...
LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...
Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most ...
I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and ...
For Sale: Complete set of encylopedias. Never used. Wife knows everything.
The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At ...
Off for the highest pass on the Pamir Highway
One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, ...
Never say money is hard to get. Money will hear you, and that's just what she'll be.
Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, ...
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret ...
It's kind of sad that couples don't want to work together, it's like, 'Wow, you really don't like the person you're with?' I'd rather kiss ...
Retain your peace by refusing to respond to rude, judgemental, or prying people. They won't understand anyway.
You will have memoriesBecause of what we did back thenWhen we were new at this,Yes, we did many things, then - allBeautiful ...
Anybody who has watched me play knows I'm not one of the fastest guys, but I understand what's going on around me and what to ...
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.
The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.
New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...
The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.
An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.
Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos- ...
You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to ...
The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.
The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.
In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.
You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to ...
But least is he who, with enchanted eyesFilled with high visions of fair shapes to be,Muses which god he shall immortalizeIn the proud Parian's perpetuity,Till ...
I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated ...
In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that ...
I point out that Tiny Cooper had about 11,542 girlfriends freshman year, and then Tiny punches me in the arm in a way that he ...
Jason muttered "And I saw something ... Really terrible.""That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.""That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I ...
Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer ...
But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red ...
Only when a tree is small can you notice its growth. When it is bigger, it continues to grow, but imperceptibly.
German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" ...
YOUR LUCKY COLOR IS DEAD.
Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
The phlegamtic female is a weepy, bug-eyed, fat, lumpy, fleshy German. She looks like a sack of flour. She is born in order to become ...
We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.
We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance ...
Relax, Phyra. I'd be more concerned if he were in here with my son than with my daughter. The biggest threat he poses is he ...
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I ...
I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by ...
In our own present world age, one thousand Buddhas will appear. Each one will be accompanied by an emanation of Guru Rinpoche to carry out ...
Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. ...
When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery ...
I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, ...
Effective Peer Coaches emphasize inquiry over advocacy. Too much advocacy can produce learned helplessness. Inquiry builds capacity to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers ...
Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than rich ...
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the ...
All motion consists of two components. One component serves inwardness (internalisation) and the other outwardness (dispersion). Both preconditions for motion regulate the eternal flow of ...
She was in herself, like a woman near term,and did not think of the man, going on ahead,or the path, climbing upwards towards life.She was ...
The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the ...
Life is all about dancing freely while the music is still playing, but remaining optimistic about the next song. If you're lucky, someone will expectantly ...
As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them ...
Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But ...
Dogs are forever in the push up postion.
And god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the ...
Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't ...
Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness ...