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We strivin' for perfection.
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could ...
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Small daily improvments over time create stuning results
There is no escape from sordidness but by being free from money-craving, with all its base hopes and temptations, its watching for death, its hinted ...
I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with me.""Well, stop," she said. "I told you, figure out what's right with you.
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging ...
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to ...
I was not going to wait any longer for my life to start. I was going to start my life on my own.
If 'one' really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply ...
You don't have to show people how successful you are.
Someone was always leavingand never coming back.The wooden houses wait like old wivesalong this road; they are everywhere,abandoned, leaning, turning gray.
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is ...
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in ...
If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double ...
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.
And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one ...
I do have a staff of what some people would consider to be very attractive, chic women. They are not on the staff because they ...
You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.
If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am ...
The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.
The real world is simply too terrible to admit.it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.Culture changes ...
I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they ...
If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but ...
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut ...
Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were ...
Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up ...
This side of Eden, whether we realize it or not, we feel the stain on our souls, and at every opportunity, we try to scrub ...
I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves.
It was too good to be true, too sweet to be reality for too long, so when someone set out to destroy his belief in ...
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. Later:
... Clear pebbles of the rain ...
Earth is constant only in her inconstancy, but in the heavenly state all mournful change shall be unknown, and with it all fear of storm ...
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize ...
I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still ...
SIMPLICIO: ... You have to [learn to] walk before you can run.SALVIATI: No, you have to have something you want to run toward.
I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would ...
Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the collective, ...
I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I ...
The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved ...
The rat scuttles, the big cat creeps, the monkey dashes,The bat glides, the white crane soars, the lizard darts,And the owl hootsIn the middle of ...
How is Ty? There is nothing wrong with Ty, but he is different, and the Clave hates all that is different. They will try to ...
The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good ...
The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared ...
So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.
Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is ...
You wanna clean up?" he asked quietly. "Yeah," I answered quietly too. "Then shuteye or you wanna sit on my face?
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have ...
Dear Eldritch Snitch. I slap you with the satin glove of righteous wrath! From what noxious nest of nattering nincompoopery do you release your rancorous ...
I was at the bottom of the sea, the pressure dense, crushing, inexorable. Dead silence strained against my eardrums. The darkness was without reprieve. No ...
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. ...
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets 'piccoli segreti' that are simmering on the burners. ...
Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?
He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that We Are the Champions, to hell with the rest and I'll ...
The days I'm not doing videos, I always have random stuff. We do production meeting stuff. Those are so stupid. Everyone's like, 'We like you; ...
If God didn't make men equal, Samuel Colt did.
Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left ...
You are innocent in your heart," she had said to him. "That is the most important thing." And he had thought about that for a ...
That night, Kaz took Saskia's red ribbon from beneath his pillow. He rolled it into a neat spiral and clutched it in his palm. He ...
He was good. The best fighter she'd ever faced. But Safi and Iseult were better.
ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
May crystals give you power!
It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon ...
It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international ...
When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.
The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating ...
The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for them.All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,Which when resum'd, ...
My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things ...
You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith ...
Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She ...
It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator ...
If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he ...
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, ...
Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely ...
Waiting to live life is not worth it. Waiting for someone to figure out how to live with you is not worth waiting for. When ...
Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.
But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the ...
Don't want anything. Then you get everything.
I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're ...
Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when ...
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.
HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it ...
And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the chosen of gods and doomed to greatness?
Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,Thou lily-livered boy.
You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the ...
Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward
In short, the greatest gift of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we are obliged to grow larger than ...
I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished ...
I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a source of pride ...