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Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware ...

A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented ...

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, ...

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter ...

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer.

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one ...

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

How did you find out?" "I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something ...

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic ...

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

The untarred road wound away up the valley, innocent as yet of motor-cars, wound empty away to other villages, which lay empty too, the hot ...

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by ...

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, ...

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.

Time, as they say, is the sole determinant of the strength and the weakness.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To ...

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape.~Uryu Ishida

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

There is no thing to see: you simply need to see that.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Choose to winGet mad, then get over it.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

If you're on time, you're late.

The rhetoric of this masked master is one of the tolerance of difference. What better way to keep people in tow, hold them in the ...

Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

She suffered much from the adjacent presence of her daughter-in-law, whose misfortune it was to become disagreeable when she was unhappyperhaps the heaviest curse that ...

I blinked once, "if it's anywhere near as bad as what those assholes did to me... I'm tired of living through this shit just to ...

I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. ...

Curiosity's primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding ...

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.

You'll have to excuse Harry. He has what I call 'chauffeured child syndrome.' " "He's been driven all his life?" "That is correct. He has ...

Nothing is more vulnerable and ephemeral than scientific theories, which are mere tools and not everlasting truths.

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and ...

For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.

Peace and love to all.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter ...

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.

Diabetics are commonly obese because excess carbohydrates get stored as fat, not because they eat too much fat.

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, ...

Those unuttered words of your smile can rewrite the history of this wonderful world.

Peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it.

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale ...

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, ...

I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction. In

The greatest defect we have in our prayers and in all that happens to us, particularly in that which concerns tribulations, is our lack of ...

Forward, towards the danger!

What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

When you give up, you are giving others control of your destiny.When you choose not to give up, you take control of your destiny.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way ...

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father. Not I, quoth my uncle. - But you have some ideas, said my father, ...

Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and ...

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of ...

Juliana was momentarily at a loss for words, a strange condition for her. It didn't last long.

Loyalty ignites undying love. The

It is not raining to me,It's raining daffodils;In every dimpled drop I seeWild flowers on distant hills.

Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.

Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

If I were to give any religious person advice, it would be to not hold their beliefs above others.

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that ...

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, ...

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, ...

Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering ...

The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...

That women were more spiritual, more sacred than men. I still believe that about women. Is that, too, comical?

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those ...

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love ...

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

Menoeceus wants his father. (Astrid)Bob is crying because he wants his mother to stop calling him that crap-ass name. It's all right, Bob. Daddy's got ...

The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other ...

So often one thinks that individuals and situations cannot be so extraordinary as they seem from outside: only to find that the truth is a ...

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

-Wherever you go, there you are! You can't run away from yourself, or the underlying situation, no matter where you go. You won't find happiness ...

Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel ...

It was probably a good idea to have you possible future stepmother think you were a little nuts. It would keep her on her toes ...

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.