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If you stop chasing your dream, you're already dead.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the ...

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean ... ' I took no ...

In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is a todo ...

I would savor every moment of my life that remained, suck its marrow, crunch its bones. And when the end came ... well, I would ...

The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order ...

I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin

Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too ...

In a moment of panic, he reached back and grasped the large punch bowl, still three quarters full of bright red juice and an assortment ...

Blessed are the ones who have become spiritually "domesticated"; the ones who have tamed the wild animal energy within them, the passions and compulsions of ...

She does seem a few chapters shy of a book!" Poe's

The fact that there's a Highway to Hell and only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers. - ...

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

In real estate, discipline translates into fully understanding your investment goals and surrounding yourself with the right tools and skills to successfully achieve those goals.

Good times make bad policy. - Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2

My kids don't need to see a supermama. They need to see a mama who needs a Super God.

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

But in a nation that had nearly spent its way into bankruptcy, sturdy locks and a perimeter alarm were the preferred form of security, because ...

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

God will never be sort of Words relevant every suitation

Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to ...

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having ...

People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky ...

You don't think I'm Satan, do you?" "Of course not." She smiled across the table at him. "Snidely Whiplash, maybe. But not Satan.

As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of ...

Hitler was nice to dogs

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's ...

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, ...

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with ...

He was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days.

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there ...

The room seemed suddenly to clarify, as when a chance scatter of stars resolves into a constellation before the eye.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.[Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

I miss u i love youthere's no second ive lived you can't call your own

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name ...

Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?

I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another ...

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

The more she thought of it, the more that luck seemed the opposite of being awesome. One was something you did; the other was something ...

His heart, which seemed to have swollen to an unnatural size, was thumping loudly under his ribs.

For we never have naked and empty symbols, except when our ingratitude and wickedness hinder the working of divine beneficence.

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed ...

We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine ...

O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?

It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

Famous women keep their same names even after they get married because their names are their bread and butter.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then ...

To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or bold ...

I definitely know that there's somebody looking out for me, because I could never do this alone.

The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in ...

Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am ...

With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office ...

When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts.

The caterpillar turns to liquid before turning into a butterfly. Liquid. Thus washing away any speck of his caterpillar self as he lies completely vulnerable ...

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

To her mind the Senate was a place where people went to recite speeches, and she naively assumed that the speeches were useful and had ...

If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a ...

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management ...

I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest ...

Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! ...

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting for ...

And there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.

All family histories, personal histories,are as sketchy and unreliable as histories of the Phoenicians, it seems to me. We should note everything down, fill in ...

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass ...

You have to remember that what we're dealing with here are Sumerian gallu demons. The next to the lowest form of demon on the demon ...

Was he being what Daffy called "ironical"? She had once told me that the word meant the use of veiled sarcasm: the dagger under the ...

What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced ...

Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do ...

It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive ...

The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.

She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.

The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not) ...

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths ...

No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants ...

Smile. No one cares how you feel.

My faithis a great weighthung on a small wire,as doth the spiderhang her baby on a thin web.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibility in their ...

Besides, it left the humans in the Culture free to take care of the things that really mattered in life, such as sports, games, romance, ...

If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.

Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do ...

Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types.

Higher still and higherFrom the earth thou springestLike a cloud of fire;The blue deep thou wingest,And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the other. I have ...

Since I can remember, for some reason, I was always "not like others," and it was presented by everyone like there was something wrong with ...

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after ...

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people ...