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Asha believed a person seeking betterment should try as many schemes as possible, since it was hard to predict which one might work.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic ...

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story ...

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the ...

I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more ...

But the part where you had to teach your kids that life could throw curveballs and you had to dig deep to find it in ...

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am ...

Pain is inevitable in life; you can't avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature without emotional attachment and then transcend yourself ...

Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we ...

The future is a dark place. We all die there.

Why, 'Some are born great, some achieve great- ness, and some have greatness thrown upon them. ...

I think that the Peeps or Peppies or Pipes diaries would be much more popular had there been a universal pronuncation of his name.

We can do one of two things with suffering: we can absorb it and let it change us, or we can let it crush us. ...

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was ...

Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks, forcing ...

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Without an understanding of what a thing really is, it cannot be either uncovered or changed. (Aubrey)

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Let's say you have a pile that is not sorted. Bring it in front of you, put a sticky note on it that says 'pay ...

But it works that way if it works.

So, did you peep the trap house that I sent you to? That's where Divine be," I said. His

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring ...

A person with no friends is a house with no windows.

Sitting still is a quick path to madness, she reminded herself - as if this might explain the trembling.

Four. I checked the other side

God, Love and Romance are harmonious...

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing ...

Qualitative change is only produced by long-term quantitative accumulation.

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and ...

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

My own parents loved each other very much.

The self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

She died believing in the Trinity and Heaven and Hell and all the rest of it. I'm so glad. Why? Because I loved her.

The temptation battle is the most important battle you will ever fight.

When you recognize that you are your own SoulMate, you feel at home and peaceful within yourself, no matter what is going on in your ...

The most dangerous identity is that of victim. Once we see ourselves as victims, we can clearly identify a enemy. Steeped in our own victimhood, ...

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have ...

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

The customer is never wrong.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about ...

[I]ntrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

A high and attainable goal and being focused on it, is the best cure for laziness, excuses, offence, and hatred

Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every tool will be ...

We're capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

I really wish she had a different way of viewing things I think the city that we're from just kinda ruined things

For Your word has given me life.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have ...

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I ...

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

You had to stay consistent to life's delusions. All you had was your perspective, so objective truth was meaningless. You had to choose a dream ...

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states ...

We're novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can't die for all eternity with no feelings, no emotions and ...

I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved ...

Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.

I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time ...

Is talking the only thing you can do with your mouth?"Seven flicked a look up. "No.""Good.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me ...

Every person has something he can serve other people with.

I think what I need to do is stay awake while I'm sleeping so I can see what I'm dreaming better!!

Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, ...

But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? ... Are we or they Lords of the World? ... And how are all ...

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

Don't just get up and go like that again-like you always do.

I kept thinking while I was pushing, I'm going to get huge. I'm going to get huge! she said.

People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline ... can be ...

I think fear is a very healthy motivator.

A day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I ...

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always ...

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me.

Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On ...