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The punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that ...
The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette through one of ...
Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.
But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn't make you matter ...
Even if the world ends, the music will still survive.
Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. ...
Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and ...
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it ...
Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters ...
And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice.Maurice felt uneasy."Then you understand - without me saying more - ...
Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out ...
When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.
The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. ...
I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. ...
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected ...
[J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtueindeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and ...
I'm unshockable, fortunately - or unfortunately.
[...] it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only ...
I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great ...
I've never really undestood," the unicorn mused as the man picked himself up," what you dream of doing with me, once you've caught me."The man ...
Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes ...
Our favorite people and our favorite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something unadmitted.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular ... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the ...
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of ...
Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.
I still think about you at nightyou come back to me with the stars.
If you throw up," Kles said unsympathetically, "remember not to face the wind.""Yeah, Koko. You're the one who's been complaining about doing the same things ...
Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to ...
If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll ...
Light is undiminishable, eternal and omni-present. In every religion that existed these qualities have been recognized as divine. So that we are forced to the ...
The uniform of polish uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.
Love is patient, love is kind and not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek ...
I find it difficult to relate to people who enjoy discussing the utterly uninteresting and unchangeable facts of life.
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.
Love must always start free - but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom ...
Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness ...
Love is sacrifice ...
What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so ...
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The ...
If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all ...
Work is underway to select the go-forward smartphone brand.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the arm of the Pentagon most responsible for shiny, futuristic technology, recently gave a $100,000 grant to Logos ...
With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.
Savage bears keep at peace with one another.[Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
The wave uniting with its depth is yoga.
This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a ...
You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself ...
There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.
I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the ...
Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape ...
I wrapped my arms around his neck, drawing him closer. Oh God, it was so out of control, but in this really sweet, beautiful way. ...
Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers ...
Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it ...
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves.
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to ...
To dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star!
That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's ...
There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, to walk against the wind for pleasure.
Running outdoors is to be in a sort of magical kingdom under whose spell I feel happiest.
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Matthew had won this battle - a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.
You might not be able to run a paintbrush over unpleasant memories, but you can certainly cover them with a black cloth and pretend they ...
Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis'urna.
I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not ...
I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, ...
There were such sounds as are not heard in daylight - moon sounds and cloud sounds and sounds of dark wind; branches talked and other ...
Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality
Peace is not the absence of war - peace is the absence of fear.
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't ... The pain which it inflicts ...
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional ... All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this ...
The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit ...
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals ...
My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor ...
In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system's failure to adequately provide a ...
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...
To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot ...
And above it all the butterfly effect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that ...
If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.
The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, ...
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed ...
Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them ...
Ah Maud, you milk-white fawn, you are all unmeet for a wife.
Oh my God, I can't believe I actually said that out aloud.Neither could he. The fact that she saw him as so sexually appealing was ...
She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When
When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.
What shall we call this undetermin'd state,This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans,That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.
The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.
In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but "confiscated" the Message; Christianity universalized but "altered" it; Islam in turn restored it by stabilizing ...
A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was ...
The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. ...