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When it stops being fun, stop.
The more we try to ground our identities in external possessions or triumphs, the more we plaster our names on everything we can accumulate, the ...
An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it. The
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a ...
As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns ...
Little did I realise how much I would miss those ten minutes, those ten minutes in which I lived an entire lifetime.
Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of ...
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something ...
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
Evolution is not progress, that there is no 'goal' or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution 'succeeds' if that change best adapts some leaf ...
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And ...
If her father was Thunder, then George was Smoke - and how could you argue with someone who began to disappear as soon as you ...
When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it's hard to meet people.
I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people ...
There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course ...
I personally like to shop in person so I can feel the product.
You can't replay time.
You were the one girl I wanted who wanted nothing to do with me.
It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be ...
Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to ...
Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful ...
You're a Genius all the time
Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get ...
Why do they use it like that? Peace." "When you have never known a thing except to dream," Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, "it becomes ...
In divorce the contract between wife and husband is being broken and the courts may need to mediate the division of assets, but children are ...
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay ...
In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real ...
You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? ... That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. ...
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Darling," she said, "we're a train wreck.""Sweetheart," I said, "train wrecks always make the front page.
...nightly rolling of Mother Ocean ("It's all right, it's all right; everything is calm; we are just eating every thing that moves in here, dry ...
The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too ...
Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece ...
What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
The time has come for professional jurors.
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and ...
It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole ...
No. I've always been drawn to broken, wild terrain. The oddest tongues come from such places, and the strangest mythologies, and the oldest cities, and ...
Amy: "Can I come?"Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back."Amy: "People always say that."Doctor: ...
Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no ...
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The ...
It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime ...
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.
The proper way to elicit information from a group is not by starting with a public discussion but by confidentially collecting each person's judgment. This ...
Paulucci and Michaud both attacked Wolzogen simultaneously in French. Armfeldt addressed Pfuel in German. Toll explained to Volkonski in Russian. Prince Andrew listened and observed ...
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of ...
Charlotte dropped her gaze to her feet. You're the most heroic man I've ever met, Stone Hammond. Slowly she lifted her face. I owe you ...
I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, ...
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to ...
In all of us, there is a child that exists while we have our parents. With my mother gone, I feel a sadness for the ...
Give Him your mess and let it become your message.
I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your ...
Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.
Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.
It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so ...
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, ...
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.
You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, ...
Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.
The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished.
You were born to unlock your consciousness and be universal and infinite.
Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.
In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use ...
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity.
Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.
I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's ...
It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, ...
If some area of your life sucks - do something else. Life is too short - and too long - to spend it being miserable. ...
Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing ...
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and ...
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her ...
Pain now is better than pain deferred.
To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.
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 ...
I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn't care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to ...
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Commander Breaker, do I ask your advice on how to run the Bureau?" Jonas growled when the look had no effect on Rule. "You don't ...
Because Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer, I said.
I loved him, but he didn't want me anymore.I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.This desire will be my end.
When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not ...
Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic ...
It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later ...
It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work ...
So many teachers teach us but we shall always remember certain teachers
SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T ...
Don't judge. That was a joke. How could I not? Everyone judged whether we admitted to it or not, usually saving the harshest criticisms for ...
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evilthe silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply ...