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If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.
On Algebra - We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from ...
Everything starts to break down, however, when a species gains language. What we talk about isn't what we experience - we speak chiefly of interesting ...
This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its ...
How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite ...
If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your ...
Sometimes being too nice is dangerous, you have to show your mean side once in a while to avoid getting hurt.
I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers ...
If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an ...
Then came upon a world in ruins an anxious youth. The children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the earth; they were born ...
I like 'The Big Lebowski'. The Dude is my man. My brother and I can quote that.
What are you?I opened my eyes gingerly. The flashlight that had blinded me was lying a few feet from my head now, which gave me ...
Can you believe him? Does he think if he just dangle his boy bits at you like a cat toy you'll go scampering after him?""Of ...
The best revenge is to live well, and rub their noses in it when you're old and powerful.
The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. ...
There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I ...
I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions ...
Some people can go out in a tight, short dress and heels, and it works, but even if I'm going to a club, I've got ...
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.
I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice ...
She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to ...
The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your ...
For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so ...
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose ...
I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, ...
Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
The challenge of a journalist is to condense a thousand thoughts into a single sound bite. The challenge of an author is to place a ...
Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of ...
TORCH The human soul is but a part of a burning torch which God separated from Himself at Creation. WM-ST-67
I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love or makes some ...
A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And ...
Visions flashed through her mind. A fluttering of white wings. A burning arrow. Stained glass under her feet.
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse can ...
I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather ...
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' ...
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people ...
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself ...
Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. ...
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his ...
Sometimes I fear that even as a People when we take one step forward, we reel backwards ten times fold. I don't even think on ...
It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)
I'm tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.
I'm going to take it slow this time. We're going to burn every stroke, every touch, and every kiss into our skin so when we're ...
Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good.
Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him ...
A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
The Word says that if we have a faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains. And yet, we limit what God ...
On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the ...
Steve, you want to be thanking all that's fucking holy I've got my girl in my arms, because if I didn't, the cleaners would be ...
Shawn rested his head against the seat then turned to talk to Sarah. "It's your birthday tomorrow." "Ruby Tuesday's thought it was three months ago." ...
You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all.
Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about ...
Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? Apurpose?""Is Annah still wearing clothes?""Affirmatory.""Then the answer is yes.
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries ...
I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I ...
Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to ...
In the words of Euripides, 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad'.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the ...
I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; ...
True love is born from hard times.
When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring ...
Trusted you ... Jake Sully: continuing what he was saying - with you. Neytiri: getting upset I trusted you Jake Sully: trying to calm her ...
The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have ...
Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are the leastest people ...
As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and ...
It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the ...
This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who ...
Whatever emotional state you're in while you're parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how ...
I made sure to brush my teeth as soon as I was able. I even asked for a hair tie to pull my long, blood-red ...
A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he ...
To my father's amazement, was an ancient but clearly recognizable painting of Marco Polo, who must have visited Huai'an during his thirteenth-century travels about China. ...
In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and ...
But somehow, every time there's a natural disaster, news crews manage to track down one of these outdoorsy yahoos to interview about how the "twister ...
I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a ...
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.
A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the ...
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is ...
There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the ...
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we ...
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath ...
He snapped some icicles off a branch to make me a martini. He came back to the car, long legs lifting high in the snow, ...
It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry
In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do ...
The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty ...
The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data ...
The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you're wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected ...
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those ...
SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism and there are those who think they are one and the same.
No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an ...
The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the ...