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The story of the world is not the story of coups and revolutions. It is the story of lost keys and burnt coffee and a ...
He went through the old motions of his life, taking care of what needed caring for, keeping mostly quiet about what was on his mind. ...
People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, ...
The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.
When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.
You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you ...
Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or ...
I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they ...
Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his ...
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place ...
She [Mrs. Hines] stood before the door as if she were barring them from the housea dumpy, fat little woman with a round face like ...
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could ...
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." | S1C5
Fighting for freedom" is a myth. There's only freedom in uniting. You're not really free with an, "Us vs Them" mentality; because you are constantly ...
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories ...
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very ...
Captain's Log......Four days have passed with no sign of human life on this island. Hunger is about to push me to the point of......Eating pocket ...
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during ...
[The] United States is proud to stand with you as your strongest ally and greatest friend. I see this visit as an opportunity to reaffirm ...
A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
His cold, unmoving face startled me, but the warmth from his hands left me curious and longing for more of his touch.
I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
For we always seem to ourselves righteous and upright and wise and holy - this pride is innate in all of us - unless by ...
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
I push him off, sit up an start puttin my clothes to rights. He's made a heroic effort to undress me. You work fast, I ...
Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not ...
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, ...
The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have ...