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Life can make a person weary and wary, and the body and soul become fatigued. Unalleviated tedium extinguishes the light in the soul.
The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, ...
A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
To mee, who with eternal Famine pine,Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven,There best, where most with ravin I might meet; Which here, though plenteous, ...
Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to ...
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.
I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies ...
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that ...
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...
I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on ...
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 ...
Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we ...
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full ...
The greed for fruit misses the flower.
The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled ...
I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or ...
Suddenly she sighed: "It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, ...
With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the ...
I am ... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints ...
The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. ...
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
It's just past eight and I'm feeling young and reckless. The ribbon on my wrist says "Do not open before Christmas." Only liars, but we're ...
I don't think we're wasting people in space.
Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. ...
This is no dreamjust my oily lifewhere the people are alibisand the street is unfindable for anentire lifetime.
The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part ...
These woods are second or third growth and sadly lost their leeks long ago. It turns out that when forests around here grow back after ...
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got ...
Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and ...
The organism feeds on negative entropy.
It's a strange city ... filled with things that are not obvious.
Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experiencebut when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, ...
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ...
Until the sun falls from the sky.
61 ULTIMATUMS Great Alamance Camp May 16th 1771 To the People now Assembled in Arms, who Style themselves Regulators In Answer to your Petition, I ...
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, ...
Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, ...
And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank you, ...
I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.
After you get stung, you can't get unstungno matter how much you whine about it.
The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag ...
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.
U is gone. I suppose you're aware. The 1st aeiouy to go. Up until now the other graphemes were not aeiouys. When the aeiouys start ...
A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, ...
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the ...
You are upgrading your technology, and you've not upgraded yourself!
Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong ...
Hasten Little Maiden ... stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens ...
Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.' In other words, life has a solid right hook, but it's not going to ...
Verizon had just come out with FiOS, and AT&T had U-verse. We came up with a couple of options, and then our marketing people came ...
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
Security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with ...
You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be ...
'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever ...
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner
Uh, you all haven't asked this, but I will go ahead and tell you this. Do I think I'm the one that killed this kid? ...
Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know - that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in ...
Life is not meaningful ... unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or ...
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and ...
Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from ...
The question of this book is simple: What is the best use of my smartphone in the flourishing of my life? To that end, my ...
We are so conceited and so unproud.
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
The name of Peru was not known to the natives.
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
It was completely unshocking that there were monsters in the world, secretrituals and underground burrows filled with the dead, when in my own way, I ...
I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.
It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it ...
To persevereIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's ...
So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps ...
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as "unhurriable" as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm reaches down, no ...
Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin ...
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of ...
In astronomy class, the muse urania angrily watches a panel of men talk about the wonders of the stars as though they created them.
Was it an accident I saw that ... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as ...
When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us; our partner agitates us," his simple reply ...
To Strange's unnautical eye, it looked very much as if the ship had simply lain down and gone to sleep. He felt that if he ...
Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she's ...
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly ...
The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the ...
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
The mothers in my neighborhood were screamers and yellers, silent fuming carpet-raking speed cleaners or detached unkempt anticleaners, all-day-luncheon martini drinkers, chain smokers prostrate on ...
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it ...
Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which ...
To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard ...
I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory ...
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but ...