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My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these ...
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. ...
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, ...
I could deal with hate and fear, but for the love of all that's right in the world, don't fake like me. Life was too ...
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and ...
And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you happiness would give ...
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and ...
Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like ...
Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because ...
I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. ...
We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we ...
Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. ...
I don't call it hate . . . I call it an awakening . . . you were the girl I chose, pure, loyal, untainted, ...
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a ...
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there's the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and ...
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part ...
In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major ...
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, ...
I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If awoman has the strength ...
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last ...
Why? As much fun as a hospital sounds, I'd rather spend the evening dancing with an amazing, smart, funny, interesting, beautiful girl who has the ...
Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns ...
I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, ...
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation ...
Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon ... One day it occurred to him to push ...
He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was ...
The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of ...
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. ...
I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, ...
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam ...
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
Don't wait for the perfect moment,take the moment and make it perfect.
Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned ...
I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut ...
The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions ...
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
I think you can get away with so much more offensiveness when you're operating behind a stuffed teddy bear or a cartoon or something that's ...
There's meaning in thy snores.
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, ...
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people ...
I would learn the varying temperature of erratic desire, the caloric output of longing, and the previously undefined and eventually unbearable weight of first love.
Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed ...
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going.
Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, ...
We're all conditioned that we shouldn't like our brothers and sisters, that we should be angry and fight. But that's abnormal. A lot of people ...
There are more than enoughto fight and oppose;why waste good timefighting the people you like?
I think I look nicer now. It's really weird cause when you're 21 you think, "Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, ...
I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with ...
There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling ...
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all ...
Nearly a half century ago, while Social-Democratic and Communist theoreticians babbled about a society with "work for all," the Dadaists, those magnificent madmen, demanded unemployment ...
I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
I have done this - made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand ...
Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a ...
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their ...
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this ...
Maca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they get so sexually ...
The Eagles's 1977 hit "Hotel California" was a flawless piece of craftsmanship, but it was about upscale fatalism and gilded cages, about the hotel you ...
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his ...
What was striking about Ms. Wilson, and was also true of the other outsiders who volunteered their time that day, was that she spoke to ...
He had read once that sleep does to the cerebellum what waves do to the ocean. Sleep sparks a series of pulses across the webs ...
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come ...
A sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!
No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.
It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.
We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.
The first day of spring is known as the vernal equinox. The equinox is special. It only happens twice a year, like a good night ...
What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If ...
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
Whatever phase of life you are in, make time to pause and reflect where you are heading to. It is a good time to insert ...
In a sense,' Foucault concluded with a flourish, 'all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful ...
Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing ...
Life is a gift. Enjoy the 'present' with gratitude!
Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like ...
Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, ...
This is a very insulting tributeBut take it in good heartCongratulations Mom and DadYou've reached Silver together ... apartLots of love etc
The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything ... from me
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.
Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. only instead of turning a man into an animal, she has made the animal humanZarek
The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.
Oh dear God, no, stop!"Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what?I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on ...
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I've done some crazy stuff in my time ...
Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain ... pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. ...
Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any ...
I remember you organized the big laundry party and all of our friends took their dirty clothes to the laundromat and drank wine out of ...
It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest ...
I did want to be the top sniper.
Wrath was in a bad mood, and he knew this because the sound of the doggen waxing the wooden balustrade at the top of the ...
The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived ...
Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking ...
Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass ...
In the ONLY 1 life we live, we have thousands of tears, millions of smiles, you take some ... you give some ...
How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door." Ursula sighed dramatically. "What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? ...
The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going ...