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His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed ...
Someone's a very dirty Uncle." ... "And a very naughty niece
The institution of private property ... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is ...
Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes ...
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness ...
Cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries. I am as ...
Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in ...
Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present ...
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment ...
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 ...
I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.
Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It ...
Having reached the term of his natural life; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you ...
That's what science is about: seeing the exact same things that other people do, finding the units of measurement with which to describe those things, ...
LTO ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements ...
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to ...
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights ...
Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living
It's no wonder we are so messed up when it comes to walking with God. In nearly every aspect of our existence, good performance equals ...
The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and
When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.
You don't think you're a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know.
Did I hear your correctly, my dear?" Ahan asked with a shaky voice. "You're going to go into Elantris?""Yes." Sarene said."I need something to drink," ...
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a ...
It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.
His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that was his abiding ...
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
... there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility ...
No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and ...
I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, ...
. . .don't face a problem, burn it.
Girls dropping out of school because of early and unwanted pregnancies. The reason? They did not realize the value they possess in their body.
[Uncentering the Earth] itself is uncentering in the best possible way. Vollmann is one of the deepest, most fully ensouled writers alive.
He was upright, so was that holding up?
In a service situation, each delay can mean many unsatisfied customers, each one telling many more.
In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, ...
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
The law never tells you to pray.
Reeds are strong, you know, Ulean whispered to me. They bend during storms, rather than break. I blinked. Yes, but reeds won't hold up a ...
Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night
Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; ...
He had such a lovely smile when he was using it for good and not evil
...Nothing is more disgusting than a glass of milk, especially French milk, which comes in a box and can sit unrefrigerated for five months, at ...
Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without ...
I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody ...
What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.
Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.
Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.
God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the ...
A dream uninterpreted is like a letter unread.
It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a ...
Every lifeline has a worth untouched - it is energy, uncolored, self-driven and supreme.
I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's ...
Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about ...
Henrik, you need a wife," Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. "Why do I need ...
Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
Out of her favour, where I am in love.
Being part of the fashion world, I'm definitely not a fashion victim. If the style that's going on at that moment suits me, I might ...
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic ...
It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.
How do you see those tree? ... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with ...
Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.
I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting. High School Musical is what got me here today and I'm very ...
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the ...
If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable ...
This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.
It's a mindset, it's all in the mind.
There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on ...
I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have ...
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until ...
Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. With each passing year, the price of ...
Aunt and uncle, and when she was able, to help other women who had suffered the
The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often ...
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the ...
Why don't you want a boyfriend?""I don't know. Maybe I do. I'd just have to meet the right guy. Someone who isn't ordinary. Someone who ...
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.
I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light ...
Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.
At morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock ...
Kenneth MacAlpin unifies the Picts and the Scots.
One of the half-caste's few vices was a prodigious vanity. Yet this vanity was based on concrete results.
Reed laughed, followed by Scott, and then Zack. Kat finally let out a little guffaw of her own, and I started to join them but ...
The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weeduprooted-We shall not feel it again.We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the ...
It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps ...
For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you ...
It fills all Space, and what It fills, It is. What It thinks, that It utters; and what It utters, that It hears; and It ...
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.