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The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, ...

We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being ...

The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner ...

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had ...

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.

All the magic isn't in fairyland," he said gravely. "There's lots of magic in all Nature, and you may see it as well in the ...

In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of.

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or ...

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, ...

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

Ank froze. The moaning became more stressful and a little bit louder. "I think its coming from the basement."Without warning, Ank grabs a pool stick ...

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm ...

If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?

People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,They ...

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it ... I think the great danger in ...

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel ...

I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never ...

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine ...

Social Networking should never replace face-to-face time.

Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. ...

'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the ...

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures ...

I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. Because that's my job, right? Taking care of my pain in the ass little brother.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

He often came back 'all thinky' from work.

The opposite is best. Whenever you're angry with someone, apply this maxim. I means doing the exact opposite of what your body's telling you to ...

In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and ...

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad ...

I get the idea,' said Mark though with an inward reservation that his present instinctive desire to batter the Professor's face into jelly would take ...

In Spain, indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

The pleasures of living is loving!

I have waited a very long time to be able to have inappropriately timed discussions about the status of our relationship with you. I don't ...

Damn. Did that twee little chick just pull off scary?

You have kept count of my tossings; [3] a put my tears in your bottle. b Are they not in your book?

[ ... ] no carrot would be permitted in a soup that had not first assumed a rhomboidal or trapezoidal shape.

Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.

I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it ...

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any ...

When are you gunna forget that? It was ages ago.'Only last year, actually. Reggie was convinced he had cancer because he had a black pot ...

The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it ...

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on ...

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. ...

How will you deal with him?" Belses asked.Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out truss him up whatever the Almighty ...

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.

The old man calls out, Listen. Who doesn't have a hard time with what life throws at them when they're young? It's the toughest when ...

When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your ...

I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with ...

I felt like the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), who said on his return from a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt 'I saw ...

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

It's not true for the plants or the animals. It's not true for the stars or the trees, or for the rest of nature. It's ...

No. Ye loved him. I canna hold it against either of you that ye mourn him. And it gives me some comfort to know ... ...

I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have ...

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.No, quoting Nietzsche does ...

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which ...

This night has no beginning and no end. It will last forever in the Blue Moon's memories. Bless us, lovers, Mother Moon, if we will ...

One of Ender's toonmates shook his head. You dumb as a thumb.

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did ...

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it ...

I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, ...

Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a ...

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes ...

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, ...

Adjusting to life's changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find ...

As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. 'If you are ...

Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't ...

God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. ...

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

A gallant man is above ill words.

In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read ...

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want ...

Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, ...

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This ...

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

I wandered through Kino parlors and peered through the windows of the magnificent sprawling Grant's Raw Bar filled with men in black coats scooping up ...

She has had a hard life, but so does every woman.

Triteness is the penalty of appropriation.

Questions after a fatal fall of a giant are like lighting a fire by a breeze laden sea.

You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

Morning light through his windshield was pale and tired; the city had the desultory, cluttered look of a living room after a drunken party; Martin

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and ...

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers ...

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water ... I always felt that once you ...

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no ...

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were ...