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In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Do you believe in bobbed hair?" asked G. Reece in the same undertone. "I think it's unmoral," affirmed Bernice gravely. "But, of course, you've either ...

Love ... it complicates our games, old friend, it insinuates itself, disrupting the most carefully laid plans and unmanning the most disciplined heart.

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

But instead of all that, here he was - the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, ...

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

A big part of the Republican 2016 race is now basically a bunch of establishment Republicans going after each other. Jeb Bush going after Marco ...

We were just showering," Lex muttered."Of course," Uncle Mort said. "Everyone knows how impossible it is to zestfully clean without assistance.

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who ... prayed..with ... unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!

Winter noon is on the rise. Weak suns yet aliveare as virtue to suns of that other day.For the poor town dreamsof surrender, mothernever untender,mother ...

Was that the girl who went to Manhattan with you?" Asked Marcus. "I think we owe her a cookie" "I think we owe her a ...

Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression ...

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - ...

We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if ...

It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the ...

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

I don't care that they stole my idea . I care that they don't have any of their own

The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?

Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as ...

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff.

You need some time in a quiet place, boss. Unkink your brain's do. Mellow your vibe." "Thank you, Doctor Fraud,

The eternal, the infinite, and unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as "my god" or "our ...

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she ...

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this ...

She had become the demon, only too much, and too fast. I had an incredible urge to knock her on her ass, take her down ...

The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred ...

One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because ...

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you ...

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 ...

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst ...

Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady ...

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

Those who embrace the paradigm of religious superiority have an unshakable faith that they are favored by the one true god of the one true ...

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It ...

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.Heavens no, I'm spying on ...

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble ...

Through my willingness to train every day and to dig deep in the after-class ukemi sessions, over time I earned the respect and friendship of ...

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all ...

In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated K ...

Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, ...

If you examine the Bible daily, you find the beauty of being.

Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - ...

To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, ...

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an ...

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the ...

Upped but mentally disjointed.

It's called Two and a Half Men," Dermot was telling his guest."I understand," Bellenos said. "Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn't.""I ...

It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why ...

I believe I did succeed in making Indian uslims look upon me as a friend: when I was nominated to be a member of the ...

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, ...

Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured.

I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was about 19, I ...

He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness

Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, ...

And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier ...

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

How silent the unbeating heart.

Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

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 ...

Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...

Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of ...

But the history of independent India has remained a field mostly untilled. If history is 'formally constituted knowledge of the past', then for the period ...

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & ...

Maybe we should go on lots of double dates," Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, ...

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew ...

Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding ...

Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her ...

Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

You won't cut my son's throat,' said the Unseelie King, gazing down at Julian with a look of disdain. 'You're a Shadowhunter. You have a ...

Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the ...

Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. ...

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, ...

I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

He lounged on his side, bare-chested and barefooted, his jeans unbuttoned to show both the waistband of his underwear and the sleek lines of his ...

Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather,

Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and ...

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of ...

Life serves the food, and Death always shows up to the banquet, like an univited guest with nothing in hand to contribute, just to devour ...

The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there's a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this ...

Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.

I knew that I had seen, had seen at lastThat girl my unremembering nights hold fastOr else my dreams that flyIf I should rub an ...

In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in ...