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Black-on black crime' is jargon, violence on language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who ...

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...

The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking ...

I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing ...

It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, ...

The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing ...

She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that ...

Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.

We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by ...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

Do you love her?""Yeah.""And that's a bad thing?""Because relationships end.""What?""If I don't tell Aly how I feel, we'll stay friends. I can handle that. Friendship ...

Isn't it true that when some couple celebrates their tenth or fifteenth anniversary they seem far from triumphant? In fact they seem duped while dirty ...

Waste is also not waste, it can be recycled

I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and ...

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites ... and fails to ...

And he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of Elvish dreams, even as he ...

'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and ...

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

But there's no doubt that children have an innate sense of humor. No matter how young they are, they always know when something's really funny.

Hello-o-o-o-o, Nick," I said, hitting thek hard. "You're the world's biggest jerk for what you did to Jax. You ever show your scrawny face in ...

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You ...

Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise ...

I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. ...

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact ...

When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide ...

There are things you do only for love.

One down, fifteen to go.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

Regressives say small businesses would be hurt by a higher marginal tax. Don't believe this, either. Only just over 1 percent of small-business owners earn ...

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open ...

Trei did not stay to look out at the city, but went to find his cousin. He went smiling, and with a lightness to his ...

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners ...

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the ...

I didn't care if my ship sank or all the treasures I keep in it because you are my greatest and only treasure and without ...

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

People say Altamont was the 'end of the '60s.' It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn't think of it as signaling anything. The ...

You can break the walls of limitations with the power of your dreams and imagination.

No one will ever believe that both your hard drive and mine crashed within a week of each other,

They say to think within the box, but it's funny how those in the box never go anywhere, where those outside it, get to see ...

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a ...

Hawai'i is the only place in the fifty states where you can see the stars of the entire northern and southern hemispheres. Here, stars that ...

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, ...

In your sky, you are the brightest star.Without you light, it's dark like tar.So love yourself to enlighten others.

He was so rapt in his thoughts that he did not hear anything much that Guido was saying, that lovely bubbling speech of Guido's when ...

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six ...

The falling leaf doesn't hate the wind.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and ...

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on ...

Hugh Liedtke had a simple rule of thumb: Pick a name that started with either A or Z, so you would be first or last ...

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We ...

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased ...

Maybe it shouldn't have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing ...

Miss Gregory took nearly everything. Her clothes. New girls don't have the privilege of wearing their own clothes. Her books. Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare? Much too ...

The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to ...

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. ...

I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I'd just go up to my room and hang out ...

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, ...

I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a ...

Why else do we have Miami, if not to give me material?

I decided to masturbate with shampoo instead of conditioner today. Because yolo. Things Jesus never said.

The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and ...

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy ...

God reveals everything He has planned to people that knows Him and has a close relationship with Him.

To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the ...

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where ...

#TheJoyOfSiblings

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. ...

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

She opened her eyes and touched her lips, as though he had just kissed them. She could taste him.

Dolorous Edd Tollett gave a sigh. When I was a lad, we only ate mice on special feast days. I was the youngest, so I ...

My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities.

Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness.

The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards ...

Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, ...

If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as ...

She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of ...

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect ...

Rather than list all the things I don't like about him," Daisy said finally, "it's far easier to say there is no reason why I ...

Of all the cars I've owned, I'd like still to have the Ferrari, the Porsche, the Alfa, the Lancia, the MG-TCs and the Fiat 850, ...

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at