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Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed.

No one likes to lose. It is how you handle the loss that reveals your character.

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with ...

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to ...

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic ...

My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in ...

Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.

Growing old is an unwinnable campaign. During this war we witness ugly scenes. Truths mutate to whims. Faith becomes cynical transactions between liars. Sacrifices turn ...

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to ...

Tonight the man in the moon looks as though he's winking, or smirking: a moon with secrets.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of ...

It occurs to him that there are different versions of himself to farewell - the abandoned eight-year-old; the delusional soldier who hovered somewhere in hell; ...

Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.

The twin propositions of this book are that we are at the end of the American project as the founders intended it, but that opportunities ...

M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It ...

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands ...

He recognized it and knew it. In others - clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or ...

Statesmen can strive for the universal values of justice, fairness, and tolerance, but only so far as they do not interfere with the quest for ...

I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending ...

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than ...

More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.

Listen to me, Trace told him. I don't know who you are, but I am in possession of a very special set of skills. If ...

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - ...

Sooner or later we were destined to meet. And when we did, I would learn why his kind hazel eyes were eternally sad and how ...

The path of greatest desires often lies ... through the undesirable.

Poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the ...

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to ...

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the ...

The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for ...

Look at him, look how he drips unhealth - shudder object!

Toward the end of the Second World War, anew consciousness arose amongst the publicand policy makers of the Western World. Afterten years of crippling economic ...

...the best way to ensure survival is to not needlessly endanger yourself.""Yeah, well, I don't want to just survive. I want to *live*.

I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually try coke if ...

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making ...

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

There is time for everything; a time to MAKE the BEST and a time to TAKE a REST ...

I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.

I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to ...

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's ...

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were ...

I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

Sometimes the travelers were wise enough to put their clothes on backward for protection - but not often; they mostly died. Vasya

Beware the god who cannot laugh.

I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged. I'd ...

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again ...

It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may ...

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Every morning, arising from the death of sleep, the happy plants and all our fellow animal creatures great and small, and even the rocks, seemed ...

Nothing is the same.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive ...

I have been reading a delightful, though perhaps rather bitchy new book by Fr. Stephenson about Walsingham and Fr. H.P. There is a vignette of ...

But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It ...

The indignation was too sharp and raw for a mere piece of professional gossip; each man took it as a personal insult; each felt himself ...

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate ...

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.

So please take a seat if you really can't stand it, got success in my pocket and these rappers in a panic

We must understand that most people instinctively act out of self-interest, but if you show them that you are interested in them and invested in ...

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as ...

Trust me, you see the dead walking around, you learn not to scream, laugh, or piss yourself pretty quickly.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to ...

The tuition's true payoff the connections, not the education,

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.

If everyone stopped pretendingcapitalism would drop dead

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...

For the greater good":the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.

Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the ...

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this ...

Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the ...

No matter how bad things become, they will eventually get better. In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice and human ...

Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. ...

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

It's not love that the past needs in order to survive, it's an absence of choices.

Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the ...

It doesn't matter what humans think of you. What counts is what God says.

My first draft is the skeleton of the story. I have to go back over it from start to finish repeatedly, adding all the layers ...

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home ...

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I ...