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I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper ...
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit ...
It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. ...
My soul is in a reckless way, it's seeking culture untouched by greed, it's seeking places untouched by human spirit, it's seeking places that need ...
All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, ...
Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter ...
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
Who says we don't want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? ...
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances ...
Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them - or, often, deciphering them - is the key to understanding a problem, and how ...
And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.
What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure it is much too broad and narrow , ...
Her pain was my reward. The fact she got me hard by being shy but so bloody tempting was completely unpermitted.
For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - ...
A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat.
The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population..."people can be taught the correct rule, perhaps even with ...
In the center of the kingdom of God, you do not find a gargantuan palace inhabited by an unapproachable king. No, in the center of ...
Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people.
Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving ...
Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
Still, the moon stood out clearly against the sky. It hung up there faithfully, without a word of complaint concerning the city lights or the ...
Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, ...
We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. ...
I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
From what I could tell, whenever an archangel or a burning bush turns up, it's generally not to say, 'Hey, go out and have a ...
The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure ... Our calling creepes low and hath pain ...
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
Blue fire ran along the blade. With the Goddess's commanding pose and a flaming sword in hand, she resembled angel Uriel.
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful ...
All human beings go through a previous life ... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought ...
Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
In memory yet green, in joy still felt,The scenes of life rise sharply into view.We triumph; Life's disasters are undealt,And while all else is old, ...
Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his ...
The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is ...
Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so ...
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.
And like that black president, you'd think that after two terms of looking at a dude in a suit deliver the State of the Union ...
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around ...
The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, ...
Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.
What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age ...
When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like the ...
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and ... truckloads of guts, you know.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.
After crossing herself, she lay back on the divan and squirted a cool puddle of hand lotion from the bottle she'd brought from London. Invariably ...
The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie ...
Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced
I was going to mean what I said, to be direct and firm.I found my moleskin notebook and on the page behind the pages addressed ...
There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The ...
L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman ...
'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is ...
In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.
Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! ... Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling ...
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace
If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.
The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.
I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci ...
So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not ...
Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and brings out the ...
It doesn't matter, because I have found my match. It's Nick, laid-back and calm, smart and fun and uncomplicated. Untortured, happy. Nice. Big penis.
The qualities that I have seen successful people in HPOs posses: unbridled passion and enthusiasm.
This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as ...
Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ...
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children ... the ...
'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my ...
Tonight sucked" my dad said and I started to laugh hearing him say that. "What?" He smiled at me. "Isn't that the slang you kids ...
Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?
In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in ...
We do not explain my husband's insane abuseand we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fledor that my father opened like a walnut ...
Friends have a way of speaking without words.
Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.
How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs.
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have ...
Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the ...
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining ...
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this ...
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most ...
I think that people tend to associate the word "wild" with something that is used up and dirty; but I associate the word "wild" with ...
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no natural outlet or relief,In word, or sigh, or tear.
Belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the ...
In all my years on earth, I have seen time and time again that those who are the happiest are those who have the courage ...
The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. ...
Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...
Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in ...
Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the ...
Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing ...
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening ...
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
You can't live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.