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A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique. ...
Most everything government does is worse than useless.
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.
One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of ...
Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then ...
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the ...
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the ...
Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it ...
Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.
Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make ...
Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind ...
Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own ...
Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or ...
I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard ...
'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.
Though this situation is extreme, have you ever found yourself in an unexpected place but where, deep down, you knew you were supposed to be?
When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is ...
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning ...
But I can only pray ardently that Fortune walks with you, that you discover hitherto unimagined strength in yourself and encounter unexpected friends along this ...
Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. ...
He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the ...
We must concern ourselves not with what is beyond life, or what is life, or what is the purpose of life, but rather with the ...
May the Lord grant you tender kind heart.
How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring ...
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't ...
As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they ...
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring ...
When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.
I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. ...
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the ...
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.
My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 ...
Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense ...
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me ...
As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.
I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I ...
To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.
The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over ...
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, ...
I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for ...
It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries ...
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of ...
Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself ... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of ...
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and ...
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little ...
St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to ...
Ua maomao ka lani, ua kahaea luna, Ua pipi ka maka o ka hoku. (The heavens were fair, they stretched above, Many were the eyes ...
In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and ...
There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical ...
Nothing is as it should be. Everything is upside down.But I know I can fix this. I can do it.
Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those ...
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and ...
To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should ...
Next time we meet, my flame-haired beauty, my chivalrous promise will be worthless. Rest assured, we will meet again."-Lynx (in a note to Callie)
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia ...
I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, ...
First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united ...
Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men.
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at ...
In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything ...
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.
The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, ...
Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
At the same time I hear a word so soft and quiet I wonder if he said it up on the hill and the wind ...
My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.
I'm confident UTC could outperform in all of our markets, starting with our commercial businesses. The largest opportunities for our commercial businesses are in emerging ...
The Snowflake CharmBe As Unique As A Snowflake: Embrace All Your Dimensions
Would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative ...
That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just ...
Not everyone understand everything.
The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a ...
The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ...
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban ...
Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to ...
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
I miss u i love youthere's no second ive lived you can't call your own
If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something ...
Spring time is nature at its best.
Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a ...
She always brought something when she came on Fridays, and this time it had been a book. A Wizard of Earthsea, written by someone called ...
People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts.--from the book For Reasons Unknown
I have no heart?Perhaps I have not;But then you're mad to take offenceThat I don't give you what I have not got:Use your own common ...
I never met anyone who gets up out of their bed after a night on the town and says, 'Oh I wish I'd had another ...
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.