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Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down ...
He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake ...
He expresses himself not in a torrent of words and ideas and disruptions, revelations and setbacks, but through an ever-expanding capacity to face what comes ...
The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, ...
There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's ...
I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, ...
What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be well laden.
Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, ...
Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation
A relationship without trust is a waste of time
I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we ...
I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.-Sarah to Evie Johnson, p.345
And in my spine, at the very core of me, I am a tiger. Passionate and daring, impetuous, longing to rebel. Unpredictable and quick-tempered. But ...
Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to ...
Memories are strange things. Withough being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the ...
My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.
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 ...
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man ...
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.
And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.
In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.
Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious ...
Discard negative comments, criticism and influences.
One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at ...
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm having a small ...
I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.
One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and ...
Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. ...
I'm out talking about this company (General Electric) seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with nothing to hide. We're a 130-year-old company that ...
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. ...
We don't use the word 'intelligence' with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it's 'complex.' Which means that we don't ...
You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.
If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales
Science arose from poetry ... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't ...
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
5) I fail daily, and that is why I succeed.
Bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you
Joffrey is in my prayers as well," said Margaery. "I loved him dearly, though I never had the chance to know him." Liar, the queen ...
There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick ...
Not from here is one of the most damning insults that can be tossed, carrying with it the eternal question mark of what an outsider ...
You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at ...
Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, ...
Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE""I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me""I ...
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are ...
A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which God ...
Death is not a resident of the house. 'Death' is merely the name we give to certain rooms of the house, rooms that we, the ...
Everybody's looking at me But it's alright I like attention The clubs not hot until I walk through They stop and stare and watch me ...
Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to ...
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter ...
Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently ...
One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, ...
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.
How was it possible to hate him so much and still need him so much at the same time?
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power ...
I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.
Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention ...
Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until ...
Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as ...
Human feelings are queer things I am much happier black-leading the stove's making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be ...
Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well ...
When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.
As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories ...
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
What's your plan to stay out of my bed?
That imposter or phony feeling at work or school rarely has anything to do with our abilities, but has more to do with that fearful ...
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Reading in another language implies a perpetual state of growth, of possibility. I
Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, ...
Years after the fact, when people asked me how I got into the horse business, the answer was always the same: "I saw Secretariat.
That I don't want to feel better in the morning, how that way of life is wearing me out, that what I really want is ...
Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.
...I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.
The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.
As you proceed through your study of physics, you will find that every one of the measurable quantities that is discussed can be specified in ...
Bless her southern hospitality-filled heart.
Good Advice If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by ...