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The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.
If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to ...
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the act of denying ...
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the ...
Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and ...
Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.
All reality is a game.
I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that ...
If they asked me, I would have to say no. I made up my mind to play for the United States some day and I'm ...
The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We ...
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he ...
Forgiveness: The world need a little bit of that.
I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.
It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down ...
Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ...
Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,But has not answer'd like the apparatusOf the Humane Society's beginning,By which men ...
What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?
I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up ...
Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces influenced by Ry ...
Fish," the fool declared happily, waving a cod about like a scepter. "Under the sea, the fish eat us.
I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a ...
God offers his protection to sinners," Ceolnoth said unctuously. "Especially to sinners," Ceolberht said. "I'll remember that," I said, "when I've finished sinning.
This is a truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and ...
In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the ...
I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did ...
One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be ...
Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
(T)he real world worked differently than stories. In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was ...
Good parenting, from my perspective, is like building a three-foot retaining wall against a four-foot wave. The kids have to make up that extra foot. ...
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable ...
The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting ...
Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?
I want so much to believe in true love.
Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.
In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss. ...
My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure.
[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should ...
I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.Poetry is that, ...
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed ...
It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, ...
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
Nature of life is fragile. Uncontrollable events happen all the time in life.
He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let ...
Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick ...
Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes ...
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through ...
Ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.
I use sunscreen every single day, even if I'm not going outside in the sun, because I'm near a window. I can always get those ...
Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for ...
One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around ...
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine ...
Society does not love its unmaskers.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
In three long strides, Chris was leaning into me, pressing my back up against the building His palms flattened against mine, our fingers interlocking above ...
If you're gay how come you don't dress better?". . ."I'm undercover," he answered. "Obviously. I'm reporting back tonight on how best to attack the ...
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use ...
The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams ...
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
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 ...
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not ...
Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received ...
I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only ...
But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be ...
My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every ...
Do you mind if I call you?" Adam asked."You can if you want to," Patrice replied as she unlocked her dorm room door."Can I get ...
Sure, it's easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. Anyone can do that. It is far more important, however, to take a ...
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be ...
Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to be hunted down, ...
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith ...
Change your understanding and then even the negative side of the blessings will make you rejoice in God's blessings
It was the lack of a clear reason that got to her most, & it stabbed her that a relationship that had once seemed unbreakable ...
Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that ...
You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper. I don't answer. All I can think about is how ...
I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all ...
At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would ...
Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying-chariot through the fields of ...
I keep my undies in the icebox!
Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look ...
Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There ...
We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
Many villagers still commonly use the unit of measurement dan, literally the amount of weight a grown man can carry over his shoulder.
British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism
There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself
The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets ...
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never ...
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country ...
Alexia was rather strapping. He preferred her that way. Undersized women reminded him of yippy dogs.