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Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen ...

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially ...

If I gave up - " "Then you would begin to know the wonder and adventure of living in me,

The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and ...

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the ...

Wall, digging a tunnel under the border, or taking to the water to swim

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, ...

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

There is no such man as a one-person hero.

People are most important.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm ...

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever..

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. ...

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves ...

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of ...

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

Time is a tree (this life one leaf)but love is the sky and i am for youjust so long and long enough

Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this.

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the ...

She spoke seven languages, including Mandarin and Polish, and was finishing up her master's in Intercultural Misunderstanding, which just has to be Europe's next growth ...

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the ...

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success ...

I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important . . . but there's got to be something beyond that, right?

Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the ...

Gallimard: You have to do what I say! I'm conjuring you up in my mind!Song: Rene, I've never done what you've said. Why should it ...

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only ...

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd ...

For my characters to endure. Chapter ...

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing ...

Compete with yourself; you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too ...

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking ...

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal ...

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the ...

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent ... itwas all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't hesitate.

Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more ...

A grin spread across her face. He'd not only come for her, he loved her enough to start a galactic war. How cool was that? ...

I knew today was gonna be bad, but I never got close to this

Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.

When you conclude a paper, you should always close a door and open a window

Dating's all about giving you chances to bump and brush and touch and, occasionally, talk.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything ...

The value of a good education has never left me.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Q: What's black, white and hard? A: A test paper.

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get ...

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression ...

All clear cut ideas turn out to be wrong.

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of ...

You may be familiar with breaking large projects into smaller goals or milestones, but you seldom apply this to your life.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our childrenso longfor the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the ...

Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will always re-emerge.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them

America today remembers its history through visual imagery. Film, print, and electronic media are very capital intensive, which means that most Americans are consumers, not ...

Holding back is not the solution to the irresolvable problem, but is brief and temporary medicine to unsolvable problem.

Fear of change - innate, stubborn, and resistant to reason - is a powerful force.

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.

It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

My toe as a lethal weapon!

Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.

Everything in life is like a class if you can operate in a capacity to be open for the lesson.

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't ...

What's the matter?" he asked "nothing""what do you want me to do for you?""i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older"what ...

You're too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night.""You should put that on a greeting card.

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we 've figured out the State Department is improperly giving government ...

U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.

It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.

The sense of falling did not touch her, not as long as her body was between the hands of this boy who felt steadier in ...

If I couldn't stand up for what I believed in, then I wasn't the person I strived to be.

When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the ...

It was easier to fall to pieces when there weren't a million people judging you.

Never give up ... No one knows what's going to happen next.

Every disappointment is a spiritual awakening.

The need to write overshadowed everything. I needed to get down the words more than I needed oxygen to breathe. I was almost feverish with ...

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

I thought liberation had to do with going out into the world and assuming male duties, not with delegating part of my load. The result ...

If there is a devil, his greatest tool is division. He divides us into this group and that group and whispers that the worst, most ...

You are an immensely ancient, complex, and continuous character, for which reason please treat yourself with respect and

No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she ...

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of ...

Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when ...

So the storm passed and every one was happy.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

From Love Under a Dark Sky: In the universe vastWe share a simple feastAmong creatures equally earthbound.Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,Our eyes in ...

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Be joyful, beautiful, tranquil like a tree.

Finish every day and be done with it..