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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
College life is different, entirely different like you don't have to get ready and wear that red and crisp blue school uniform and look alike ...
There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It ...
It's post-traumatic stress disorder. When these women go ballistic and shoot their husbands or slice off their dicks, they aren't thinking about the consequences . ...
There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. ...
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, ...
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and ...
We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in ...
A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't ...
Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!
I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable ...
Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.
I want to cut his nuts off.
I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn ...
The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were ...
I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, ...
My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.
One question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance ...
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
I like really uberfeminine, classic-looking things mixed with something rougher around the edges. I've been looking at Rihanna a lot, checking her out. She's got ...
There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is ...
" ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."
Sounds like you've got it all planned out.""Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes.""And that's a lot." I laugh."It sure is," she ...
MADELEINE HERON stared with unfocused eyes at the gleaming gray coffin that held the body of her husband.
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 ...
Mere professors can boast - but true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness.
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate ...
When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and ...
Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was undisguisedly a bronchial ...
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The ...
Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers ...
Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. ...
Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed ...
In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent ...
God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window,more human than kerosene,more unctuous, more manly.
Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind ...
The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going ...
Are we alikeIn that in-betweenness?Can he see,When I smile my blue eyes backAt his brown ones,The country-city-woman-girlDancer, studentBewilderedUnbelongingYearning?
My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.
There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, ...
Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. ...
Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small ...
The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and ...
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause nothing ruins the ...
Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.
When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your ...
Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.
And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process.
Don't stay with Urdanetea, he told him. And don't go with your family to the United States. It's omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of ...
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then ...
Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old ...
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of ...
The experience of experience is untransmittable.
The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul
Rainbows glimmered in the stream. Golden grass tangled along the bank where Vick ran and thought about the girl he loved. His boots left unnotched ...
Away: that was the only command my body could respond to. Away Away Away.
You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their ...
I like underwater life.
I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a ...
The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and ...
To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, ...
I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no ...
Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest ...
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured ...
And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music ...
Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there ...
Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,
Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if ...
Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other ...
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all ...
This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all ...
For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself. If he mend, he is no longer ...
Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the ...
To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot ...
The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on ...
I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about ...
I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people ...
To get Windows 10 reliable, I had to lobotomise the installed software and USB devices.
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ...
Life without a purpose is like an unsharpened pencil; it has no point.
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is ...
And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth. Just ...
This was unintentional."It became something more without noticing. Without realizing. "Am I a mistake - " "No, myshka. You're just the unexpected, beautiful thing in ...
What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you ...
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the ...
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of ...
...unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo]
India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
Listen carefully Usopp. For Nami's sake you can be sacrificed if necessary.
Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left ...
I'm not sure what I ever did without you," he said, holding me up with one hand and unbuckling his belt with the other, "but ...
And Aragorn the King Elessar wedded Arwen Undomiel in the City of the Kings upon the day of Midsummer, and the tale of their long ...
This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all ...
Being Mexican ... means being there for each other. It's togetherness, like a familia. We should be helping one another, cheering our friends on.