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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from ...

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or ...

You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence ...

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating a ...

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.

There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence ...

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music ...

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things ...

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ...

Democritus (460-360 B.C.) - in reality there is nothing but atoms and space.

Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be ...

Let's see what my options are," he said, then slid open the drawer. Holy shit. It was like a fiesta of sex toys. "I think ...

As time passes, my story fades away.

Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish ...

My vagina claps her pretty lips, and my magic marble lights up like we've won the million-dollar prize.

We leave a piece of ourselves and our magic in a person that we fall in love with.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much ...

He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say out loud. He told me ...

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Here is the first rule of winning.You have to win small before you can win big.

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

When you hit a wall find ways to go under and over, but never give up.

[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of ...

The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic.

One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...

Jehovah, the great and mighty God of Israel, protects and gives His warriors victory over His enemies, Selah."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying ...

Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of ...

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as ...

I like that word," Pandora mused. "Strumpet. It sounds like a saucy musical instrument." "It

We all learned to think before we spoke and to limit what we said to the problem at hand.

O r simple ones, learn s prudence; O t fools, learn sense. 6 Hear, for I will speak u noble things, and from my lips ...

Historically, alliances had been formed to augment a nation's strength in case of war; as World War I approached, the primary motive for war was ...

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are ...

Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well.

The novel puts an ad in the personals:Serial monogamist seeks same. 6x9, 220 pages. Hobbies: candlelittension, tasteful gore. Weakness: occasional flashbacks. Enjoys long walks on ...

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

No one else would get it, Amanda. No one else would understand how one fucking night with a virtual stranger changed me. How I never ...

People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

I want enduring love. And, if people are honest with themselves, I think that's what everyone wants.

The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. ...

Talent," she said, "is Gods gift to you. What you do with it, is your gift back to him." ... The Blue Edge of Midnight, ...

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

And if I wavered for the instant it was not with what I kept back.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. ...

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

And she said, 'So there you are!' She asked Frank what he thought he was doing, and he said, 'Experimenting.' That's what Frank always used ...

You're sleeping with someone for a Promise. I slept with Anna because I wanted to at the time. The fact that your mom died doesn't ...

And I was his delight and he was mine.

No, she says the only way to get the facts is to ask the questions

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and ...

Always remember to love.

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong ...

I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'

There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.

There i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation ...

You need to be locally relevant, globally consistent.

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about ...

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn't considered possible.

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you ...

Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek ...

Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our ...

I'm so, so sorry. Can you forgive the dumbest guy on the planet for not realizing that the most perfect girl for him was here ...

Well, I'm guessing hat in about two centuries or so, humans will discover zero space and make transponders. Whatever they are. But in the meantime, ...

For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

He leans forward and I freeze. I thaw. I melt.

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, ...

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever ...

Success=Assinchair

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of ...

I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade ... not for the good of the world ... but for myself.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing ...

If we want freedom from perfectionism, we have to make the long journey from "What will people think?" to "I am enough." That journey begins ...

Forgot how direct she could be

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.