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Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.
When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.
To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or ...
Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ...
Mahtab looked out of the window at the moon clearing the rooftops, bathing everything around in its silver light. She sighed, envying Nasim's freedom. For ...
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and ...
Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest it ...
The most destructive or constructive actions begin with a single thought.
In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are also told by ...
When I love someone, I am blind for his/her flaws. When I hate someone, I am blind for his/her perfection
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences ...
I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to ...
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one ...
Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms a pistol perhaps a revolver. ...
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento.
When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.
Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system.
But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things - or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce. ...
Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I ...
And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult. But never became one.
I don't know why I am in such a reminiscent mood except that spring and the reappearance of toads always awakens the old acquisitive instinct. ...
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two ...
The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some ...
I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.
I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the ...
I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above ...
There is always danger for those who are afraid.
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans ...
Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better ...
So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as ...
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The ...
League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given the authority for ...
The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly ...
The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to ...
I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.
One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people ...
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which ...
Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and ...
A lot of it is found in the editing room and part of that is due to some of the improvisational tactics we employ on ...
Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression ...
Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after ...
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Don't cry," he whispers. "Just let me do what I do best, baby. Let me take care of you." "It's hard for me to let ...
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in ...
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be ...
When you follow your desires, your fears fade.
If you don't love yourself, no other love can save you.
I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've ...
I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a ...
As long as he is around, I don't fit into your life. - Nathan
Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country ...
Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting ...
He destroys that he might build; for when He is about to rear His sacred temple in us, He first totally razes that vain and ...
But however imperfect, even repugnant, were particular policies, particular actions, there remained the purity of the ideal, represented in the theories of Karl Marx and ...
I am the Ayatollah of rock 'n' rolla
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the ...
I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read ...
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If ...
The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.
Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to ...
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the ...
If you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before ...
My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought.
Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good ...
I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between ...
For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The ...
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
When you want to do something that isn't the 'norm' you will be made to feel like you have a problem and if you hear ...
An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.
Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were his eyes, though ...
In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
As Einstein once wrote (more ringingly in German than in this English translation by one of us [DG]) to honor Isaac Newton: Look unto the ...
Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man ...
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net ...
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach ...
You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!
I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version ...
Eve took a bite from the apple, chaos ensued... earth became hell as heaven retreated behind an impenetrable veil.
I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and ...
The most important decision we make is whether to be honestly fake or fake honesty.
Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.
I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', ...
How can you say it was all a lie?" I ask, just above a whisper. "Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way ...
A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if he was taking ...
The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be ...
I'll be interested to hear what the swine has to say for himself, he says. Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which ...
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises ...
We have someone with us who is dyingsomeone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to ...
It's not about what the equipment does, it's about what you can do through that equipment. That's where the soul is.
Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.
[09:09] MAV: You're sending me into space in a convertible.[09:24] HOUSTON: There will be Hab canvas covering the holes. It will provide enough aerodynamics in ...