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We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then ...
When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens - and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the ...
Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at ...
Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.
Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of ...
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent ...
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Seeing people catch a feeling in their spirit and sprint the aisles of the church while my cousins played driving, uplifting gospel stuck with me. ...
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
It made you happy, to be used by me?" Perhaps not so promising. I raised my brows with amusement. "I orgasmed three times; you did ...
The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.
I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to ...
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten ...
Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is important right now, at this moment.
If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.
New Self, New World is an extraordinary work - an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world's great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals ...
People are like detectives in their relations, they eventually find what they are searching for.
I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be ...
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good ...
What did you pray for?" Griffin asked."Nothing," she said."Nothing?""I tried," she said. "But I kept having sex flashbacks from last night. Don't worry. God's used ...
She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the ...
But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.
Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever ...
Larry, wouldn't it be a fine thing, a swell thing, a boon to the community of man and to all creatures great and small, if ...
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more ...
People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether ...
We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.
Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir ...
When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.
Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't ...
Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a banking job, acting ...
As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were ...
It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend ...
Life Teaches You Several Things,It says 'Hi' & Gives You 'Good',It Says 'Hello' & Gives you 'Better',It says 'Wait" & Gives You "The Best
Beauty is a willing loss of mental control, surrendered to organic process that is momentarily under the direction of an exterior object. The object is ...
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, ...
Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy ...
Beware the "slash" - a job listing that advertises for a UX/UI designer betrays a lack of appreciation for the value of UX, and suggests ...
I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could ...
(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt ...
I have everything I need here," he said. "Warmth. Drink. Food. Books.
If you don't know me, don't judge me.
We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on ...
We're just like the antiques. We grow old and get scarred and beat up along the way, and the only question becomes whether we're going ...
Sometimes instead of creating a scene it's better to quietly slip out of the scene, practically unseen. It saves a lot of drama, unless of ...
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted ...
The concept of Just Noticeable Difference is summarized by the equation below (a.k.a. the Weber Fraction):
Why dwell on yesterday's pee when you can make a fresh one today?
Steve [Jobs] is unique. There aren't many clients that are like that. You have one guy that you really work for. That's very rare.
I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times ...
If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ...
Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger ... It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are ...
The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault ...
The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. True North
The most important driver of user satisfaction is usefulness, which is largely reflected in the interaction design. The interaction design has to be incorporated at ...
Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my ...
I'm not holding Hitler up as a role model, the man was a filthy swine, but as I stood in the suspicious glare of my ...
How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be ... a tremendously ...
HBO is undeniably a leader in meaningful storytelling in a wide array of formats. I'm honored to join the REAL SPORTS team and look forward ...
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
It's always good to be working.
A Godless life is a goalless life.
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.
He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you ...
Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end.
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
The animals have desire, or appetite. But only humans have the ability not merely to desire things, but also the creative will to take responsibility ...
Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.
Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights. No one was lying when, in 2011, the UN demanded that the Libyan government ...
Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in ...
There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and ...
Writing the real self seldom seems original enough when you first happen on it.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless ...
If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out ... ...
I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak.
The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about ...
I love you." - Avery"I know." - Cam"Cocky." - Avery"Confident. I love you sweetheart." - Cam
I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.
Madame Bovary is myself.
You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.
Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened ...
Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does ...
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.
I feel the ground slipping under my feet, and just as I am about to fall off the precipice, you draw out a rope and ...
If you want to know where someone is at physically, mentally, financially, and spiritually, look at where they're living.
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a ...
Philosopher and author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the ego "edge god out." It is the process of disconnecting with the creative, true force of the ...