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Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather,
Grandiose paranoid schizophrenia.
At times Valentine wasn't sure whether he kept Matthews about because of his supreme unctuousness or because he had half a suspicion the valet was ...
But then - I was just following him in reverie over mountain and valley - he jumped with both feet onto the middle of my ...
When you'r no longer identified with roles and labels and conventional definition of person
Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...
You don't have to learn to be fascinating, you have to learn to be unboring.
The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the ...
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground ...
I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my ...
I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to ...
A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of ...
Though we call God our Father, own Him to be the disposer of all things, and that His word is truth; yet we will not ...
Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so ...
Mamoru, each & every one of us have stars in our hearts, & you know that the star is shining when you feel that heat ...
When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, ...
Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that undraws your curtains, and a Mother's sweet voice that summons you to rise? To rise and ...
This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.
A dove will never nest in a burning tree, nor will love ever reside in unforgiving heart.
One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown ...
A man defineshimself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we ...
I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for ...
The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford ...
You don't love me, but you used to. I wanted to say thank you for that.
An ancient adage warns, Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.
I push him off, sit up an start puttin my clothes to rights. He's made a heroic effort to undress me. You work fast, I ...
I'm a fast foodie - like, a foodie, but with food courts. I'd love to go with all my friends to a food court that's ...
I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space ...
But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as ...
It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime ...
At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once ...
He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of ...
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well ...
People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more ...
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want ...
I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying ...
Greed's an ugly thing to see red raw in the face.
We instinctively wave to people on trains because trains are a metaphor for being alive: countless souls, trapped together, hurtling across the landscape, with a ...
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be ...
Actually," he said, "you're not far off. Uncle Leo brought some toys for all you good little demigods.
If I program 'ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it," Scile said. "If I do the same with a word in ...
Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!
When Lafayette met him in 1775, the first volume of Raynal's 1770 History of the Two Indies had already been banned, which is to say ...
I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
You're unable to make someone change his views, recognize that he is a child, and clap as he does. Or if you don't care to ...
Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it ...
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.
I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ...
Each day we take another step to hell,Descending through the stench, unhorrified
There were so many things we left unsaid. Depending on how you look at it, whether you think it was worth saying it out loud, ...
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.
He goes along just as a water lilyGentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floatsUnweighed down by passion or intensityYet unaware of the ...
It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.
Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.
Hell is hell because, there, evil passes unremarked upon.
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful ...
When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs ...
We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as ...
The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
The price you see isn't always the price you ultimatley pay. C.L Ford
To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.
I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
This revolution - will it be a living?''We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's going to be hanged ...
We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not ...
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend ...
I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently ...
Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is ...
Commercial cleaning operations that use carpet and upholstery cleaners include apartment buildings and condos, offices, schools, banks, restaurants, hotels, churches, bowling alleys, transportation terminals, and ...
A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is ...
But 8 years ago, he found himself unexpectedly falling in love when he was in his 77th year, with Bill Hayes, a younger American writer. ...
True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person - ...
He's heard Unitarianism called a featherbed for falling Christians, but his mother doesn't seem like a woman who has fallen anywhere. (Where is the featherbed ...
Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
It strikes me as unChristian that we often have more charitable attitudes toward ideological allies than we do toward brothers and sisters in Christ with ...
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged, and that questioning obvious errors within the current system wouldn't ...
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks ...
The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass ...
[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.
In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla ...
Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.
You know Alou's name spelled backwards is Uola? That sounds like a first name, Uola.
If you seek to have the minutes pass faster, then what you seek is death, unintending as you may be. Minutes are all we have. ...
God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities ...
Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the ...
The worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images ...
There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I ...