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I want to release my soul from its prison cell, to silence the guards who tell me that I am not capable of living. Every ...

Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an "anacetrapib" deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, ...

You could look at the work of any Dutch master for an idea of the morning light we cycle through. There is a white cleanness ...

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

Here it is: our collaboration with Project Spark . Instead of a traditional music video for GUILTY ALL THE SAME (feat. Rakim), we are giving ...

He who makes a beast out of himself removes himself from the pain of being human

I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I ...

[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ...

Necessity breaks even the strong.

He seemed to be a pure racing animal, which explained two of his other peculiar habits: at the start of every race, he'd let out ...

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

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 ...

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Piss!" shouted Kosta, hoisting his tumbler toward Cosetta, who nearly came apart at the joints with the resulting fit of giggles."Thank you, Ravelle, for this ...

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

The madness of Christmas is not to be resisted by any human means. It either stealthily creeps or crudely batters its way into every fastness ...

Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.

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Upon her butler's announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up with ...

When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are ...

If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we'd still be riding bicycles.

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so ...

Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind ...

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's ...

Of the river of time, he worries neither about its spring nor its delta.

A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you ...

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first ...

The brain's dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist's bright blade. (91)

I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?

Dudley snatched Blanchard's plate. That lad shouting racial slurs may be offending Dr. Ashida. Please take him someplace secluded and kick the shit out of ...

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it ...

Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, ...

It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the ...

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on ...

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I'm not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if ...

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it ...

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas ...

I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked ...

Jim Rohrbach sticks to his rules. You can learn from him and win, or ignore him and lose. It's an easy choice. He gives trend ...

The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every ...

I like the scars because I like the stories. Bravery, stupidity, pain - none of them come free.

I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?

When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Wad Rayyes, you're a man who talks. rubbish. Your whole brain's in the head of your penis and the head of your penis is as ...

I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [ ... ] I feel I must have a talent ...

I've worked since it was basically legal to work. I was a waitress on and off for eight years. I worked at Sears; I worked ...

When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating ...

Although I was the one cast out alone onto a transcontinental bus, home was running away from me

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has ...

What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?

Accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession. To

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; ...

What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to ...

They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not ...

It is public land and we will do our best to provide recreational activities. We are looking at initially allowing kayak access, wade fishing, bicycle ...

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The ...

We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people.

...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a ...

You can break my heart. You can scoop it right out from inside of my chest with a dull, rusty spoon and, even then, I ...

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody ...

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put ...

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, ...

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet ...

I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile ...

A FriendSomeoneYou're happy to see,Who's happy to see you.SomeoneYou like for who they areNot just for what they can do for you.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad ...

Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.

I was small but slow as a college tackle.

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one ...

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration ...

I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I ...

I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it ...

I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite ...

I've gotten stronger, but I don't ever try to hit home runs. I stay with the same approach, just hit line drives. If you get ...

My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we're ...

Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy ...

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest ...

The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of ...

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms ...

I find joy in reading.

Right-to-work laws do not attract businesses and create jobs, as proponents claim. Rather, they are linked to lower wages, fewer benefits and higher poverty.

'It's not you, it's me.' 'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said when they dumped me. Is it in the Y-Chromosome User's ...

The stars are particularly spectacular tonight, don't you think? Dazzling. As if they've all had a good rinsing from the storm.

I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute ...

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.