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Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with ...

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.

In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many ...

I don't really think in terms of goals.

Banality is sometimes striking.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won't be able to fulfill.

The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry.

Nothing has changed and yet everything is different.

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped ...

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

The woman ran down the dirt track as if fleeing demons from Hell.

Service is a sacred strength.

No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and ...

You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep ...

I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, ...

Crying relieves pressure on soul.

History, that is to be written tomorrow ... to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions ...

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

In the girls' bathroom, I run the water hot and hold my hands under it until I feel

To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to ...

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

The gods made seven wonders and mortal men made mine.

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It ...

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

I say it's better to take a chance on the possibility of kindness than endure the certainty of cruelty.

I loved playing Darla.

The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during ...

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

Don't you know how hopelessly I need you?

It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for ...

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, ...

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

What is the difference between a dream and its memory?

You are everything I could ever want. You are the place I want to be.

Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny ...

Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.

I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully ...

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Keep writing. The only failure is in not trying at all.

As you think, so is your reality

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his ...

The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to ...

Continue demonstrating your immaturity," the Eldest said. "Surely, I will be persuaded then.

..." Happpiness is wanting what you have

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Lassiter," Ad and Colin said together. At the sound of the name, even Devina rolled her eyes. "Oh, Christ. Him again.

I can be changed by what happened to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control.

The putting to death of morality had, on the whole, become a sort of ritual sacrifice necessary for the reassertion of the dominant values of ...

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

We are the stage and all the players.

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, 'T were easier for you To put the water back When ...

A man must have confidence in himself and his cock, to fuck a woman in the ass. If he does not have this control, his ...

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He ...

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled ...

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C ...

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both ...

As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness ...

Their love story unfolded and then folded up again in Cambridge, as I watched and took mental notes and learned nothing, naturally, because the heart ...

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through ...

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it ... eases his way to action by ...

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

YouTube offers the best solution by running an ad before showing the video, but also offering a 'skip ad' button that you can click after ...

Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly ...

I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one ...

Our Klutz clangs into Stop signs while riding a bike, and knocks over giant displays of expensive fine china. Despite being five foot nine and ...

They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy ...

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

No, killing a man is fairly easy. It is killing him and not getting caught that makes it difficult.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they ...

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

If she was as hot as Heather always insinuated, it wouldn't have been months since the last time Veronica rolled over and fetched a bone.

Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

If it's all wrong, it's all right.

Look both ways before you cross the street," she tells me. I start to protest, but then it strikes me that if I am very ...

Gastronomic boredom leads to lots of unhealthy eating. If you don't make improvisation and experimentation part of your eating life, you are sure to find ...

Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me ...

The Salton Sea is a huge dead lake south of Palm Springs. There's a town there that's the asshole of the armpit of the world. ...

I became obsessed with the one question-when was it, when were we, irrevocable? When did all the little tumblers fall into place and our fate ...