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I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.
My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.
Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all as they pleased. My ...
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to ...
Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of ...
And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew ...
Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. ...
The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, ...
It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in ...
We cannot leap into world government through one quick step ... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we ...
The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil - it is merely a restatement of ...
To-day I bake, to-morrow brew, The next I'll have the young Queen's child. Ha! glad am I that no one knew That Rumpelstiltskin I am ...
Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. ...
What an extraordinary fuss there has been,' said the Dame de Doubtance raspingly, 'about that irresponsible Irishwoman and her improper child.
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is ...
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.
It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement ...
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are ...
Thud, thud, thud, riderless black horse with red eyes coming down the halls of his mind, ironshod hooves digging up soft gray clods of brain ...
Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.
Sometimes good is preventing us for being better.rbasequia..
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn ...
If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to ...
In the Red Sea of His own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins!
Reconciling love and principle was never simple. All he could say was that standing here today, love had served him greatest, and he didn't regret ...
Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.
Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice ...
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work ...
Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.
PPPS. I hope Butterbur sends this promptly. A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried. If he forgets, I ...
If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him ...
I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.
We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.
You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.
Will you be my deputy, Squirrelflight? There is no cat I trust more. Everything you do is for the best of reasons. I understand that ...
We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.
Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to ...
I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.
Waiting for Godot ... has achieved a theoretical impossibility - a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. ...
It's an impossible castle in an enchanted snowstorm in a haunted forest," I said in a voice slightly more shrill than I had hoped for. ...
He says to me, Ranulph, he says ... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made ...
In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. ...
To be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at ...
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell ...
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, ...
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do ...
Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for ...
I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.
It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing ...
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you ...
I wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle ...
Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city ...
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this ...
Leo went to work with his pliers, reprogramming the signs until the top one flashed: THE DOCTOR IS: IN DA HOUSE. The bottom sign changed ...
Excerpt:Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star:"I'll bet that's why Mama put the word "Star" in myname. I have a feeling I'm going to ...
You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don't deserve ...
I can't promise you a perfect relationship without arguments over our differences and trust issues. However, I can promise you that as long as you're ...
It's been said that members of Congress love receiving pats on the back weekdays in Washington, D.C., but they would benefit greatly from going home ...
Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on Manhattan Love Story, Tuesday nights at 8:30 ...
The angel muttered, Oh, no, a rationalist,
Girls, well, when God was coding their speech pattern, he deliberately left out the brevity parameter. He probably had a good laugh, and did the ...
Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words.
Greek has a formula for every event - weddings, christenings, buying a new dress, having a haircut, talking about children, going away, coming back, leaving ...
If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover ...
Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.
Better Dancing makes Better Lovers
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to ...
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so ...
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
I'll have a cup full of Happiness and a pocket full of Rainbows to go.
Race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Humans being humans, and sex being sex, that prohibition never stopped anyone. There were mixed kids in ...
Christianity on HP - Buy now, Pray later
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for ...
No thanks," I said, giving a sigh of repletion. "That was so good.
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self ... You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this ...
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing ...
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
Is this one of those contracts like in that kinky book where we outline what we're willing to do or not do during sex? Like ...
Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient ...
Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness's song.
In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes ...
He was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people ...