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At the moment, the general perception ... is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy.
Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.
An answer seeks to dissolve the question, a response recognizes the ongoing validity of the question, and seeks to remain in connection with it.
The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody
I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But ...
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
Thing is, every place has its limitations and its benefits. And some children don't or can't follow the path of their siblings or the generations ...
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.
Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers ...
Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on ...
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary - she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.
For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty ...
Get up, get out, and be social. - from his song Don't try
Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.
When you have a Clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity
If you're not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don't do it at all.
We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. ...
Everyone you meet comes with baggage, find someone who cares enough to help you unpack.
So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to ...
The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.
In my day, girls jumped when a Wise One said jump, and continued jumping until they were told to stop. As I am still alive, ...
The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women. Armed men facing a foe could not but be brave; but the ...
I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of ...
Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.
I'm the best at being lucky.
I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. ...
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received ...
Is it not the true scholar the only true master?
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
What is it to be a color? Color is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness.
Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get ...
The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do ...
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in ...
What we call human is nothing but a dance of trillions of well organized, interconnected, interesting, and magical molecules.
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring ...
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist ...
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into ...
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. ...
When we get older - when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another - we know that real suffering is measured by ...
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental ...
Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of ...
She said no one is evil, only unhappy, and unhappiness festers inside like sores.
We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. ...
Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what ...
Sleep," he commanded. "You need to rest after being jumped.""You could jump me.
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, ...
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a ...
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the ...
One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any ...
We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with ...
Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before ...
Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the ...
Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?" .
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics ...
A book is proof humans can do magic.
It wasn't desire, it was biology. My body was adapting to the situation. Doing what it needed to survive. That, I was certain of. Because ...
Thank you, Dr. Phil, for that fine psychological assessment," I snapped and motioned my chin to Disco. "Why don't you and Oprah here go take ...
So what you're really saying is that you were attacked by ninjas.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
Maybe you stole me. Because I distinctly remember belonging to myself once, but now I'm all yours.
This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.
One slice of key lime pie. Two forks.' I felt Todd's hand on my arm. 'You'll thank me later.' No doubt I would.
Again the word was a prayer, incense offered up to a high God through this new and unfathomable darkness
It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
Departing summer hath assumedAn aspect tenderly illumed,The gentlest look of spring;That calls from yonder leafy shadeUnfaded, yet prepared to fade,A timely carolling.
How can something that is true in your heart and in your mind not be real?
Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.
Financial independence is about having more choices.
If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all ...
BENEVOLENCE - When the sobbing of SELF PITY crosses over into the WEEPING FOR MANKIND
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion.
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun ...
You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.
Knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.
Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you ...
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
If we always livein constant fearthen we might missthe beauty of the momentright now, right here.
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no ...
All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New ...
I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to ...
Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, ...
Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.
It was too long ago; she couldn't recall the feelings of love, only remember that she'd had them. A dried-out memory, like a flower pressed ...
In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide skills, services, and education for middle-class Americans rather ...
Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I ...