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One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbour 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 ...
A fresh lightning tree sprouted in the distance as Mother Nature painted the sky in rapid strokes, strobed the results, and then erased her magnificent ...
Those memories and his feelings for her, had lain dormant but not forgotten.
Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in ...
I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down ...
We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child a lot of ...
Drink the sun's warmth and the moon's icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.
Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man ...
For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in ...
Nadia looked ... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird.
The slow cooker has a tremendous breadth of uses. I find it supplements regular kitchen equipment, and stands in for things that you might not ...
And I have faith that you'll make a wonderful head of the Council someday, Sophie.Yeah, except for that whole sleeping with the enemy part, I ...
One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came ...
I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.
People..love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the ...
I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a ...
It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, ...
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. ...
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts ...
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could ...
Good girl," he tells me in a sultry deep voice. Hearing him say, "Good girl" makes me feel satisfied, like I've just made him happy. ...
If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ...
While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'.
The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes ...
I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; ...
Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are ...
It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a ...
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the ...
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going ...
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be ...
I am like a prisoner who is trying to escape from jail by the wrong route. For all one knows, that door may stand open, ...
We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.
I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's ...
I bet things will turn out okay," I said, gripped by an urge to say some cheerful thing - it rose up from my throat ...
There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all ...
Smitt walked up next to James and watched the planet slowly grow larger. They say the water used to be so blue you could see ...
In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.
B2FH traces these various fusion reactions and explains the recipe for producing everything up to iron: it's nothing less than evolution for elements.
I am wed now. My husband is Zane. I'm sorry.
If anyone comes, shoot first, ask questions later.
Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. ...
Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.
Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.
If souls could be mated with wishes, ours would be inextricably entwined.
It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But ...
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is ...
In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.
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 ...
A broken shoelace can strangle me.
It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so ...
Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws ... It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: ...
I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of ...
The Clockwork Commune were made of many things, and some of them were steamtruck wheels and landship tracks. They salvaged speed, and used it to ...
When I asked for her best motivational tip, she shared a single sentence she uses with her employees. Whenever she assigns a project, she says, ...
Darkness is so predictable.
Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not ...
You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.
Hold it down until you come up
There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.
When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor ...
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to ...
Where evangelical spiritualities tend to move from the individual to the family to the church, Reformed piety moves in the other direction: from the public ...
As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you ...
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths ...
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the ...
There is no way you can go back in time and protect your earlier selves
So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.
But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I ...
I've done 480-odd films, have my own acting school, won awards, etc. and now host a successful TV chat show - what else can I ...
Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that ...
To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This ...
You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.
Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a ...
Jon smashes things, and glues the shards into place in the pattern of breakage. I can see the appeal.
What I did, when I did it, was honest; now, through changed conditions, what I did may or may not be called honest. Politics demand, ...
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on ...
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
She's pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty's not the right word. Beautiful.
One noteworthy thing about South Carolina is the quality of school-bus drivers in the state. To qualify for a bus license one must have reached ...
Don't be satisfied ... always try to strive for more.
Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to ...
This was the first of the solar superstorms, triggered
I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be ...
But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human dignity. We're all born equal. It makes me sick.''Never heard you talk like ...
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but ...
Aujourd'hui, rien.That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, ...
A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going ...