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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their ...

You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain ...

I've always paid off my mortgage as much as I could.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual ...

A more precisedescription of Levers's duties may be found under the general order of January 1, 1778, Barrack Master General's Office, PCC, M247, r99,i7, v15,417.

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called ...

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

His eyes darken and his voice drops to a firm, husky tone.I can always tie you to the bed and make it so you can't ...

Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?

After a life of being entombed, essentially a slave to an unfair beginning,I am free. I'm a liberated whore of the world with little to ...

Inside these letters, the eye will seeNearby are your friends, and VFD.

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee ...

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.

I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone.""I don't know how to ... to bite or drink! But you could ...

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary ...

I eat as healthy as I can. It is tough.

Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his ...

What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for ...

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to ...

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

So I watch my sadness, gleaming in all of its soft pastel glory. And I listen to the arguments against my sanity.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual ...

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. ...

Yet we cannot live our daily lives in a realm of pure ideas, cocooned from sense-experience. The question is not, How can we keep the ...

Believe is possibilities.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match ...

Lines of gulls standing on glassy blue patches of wet sand.

People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was ...

Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how ...

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal ...

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be ...

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.

Celebrate your own special spirit fly on the wings of your secret dreams ...

You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when ...

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

You're right, I haven't walked in your shoes. But you haven't walked in mine, either.

I don't need a man in my life.

Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have ...

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

I have asked thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and ...

An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.

Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual decisions, but habits.prl.3

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put ...

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

I reasoned that God, while improbable, might exist, in which case he should be worshipped; whereas Humanity, being a mere biological idea and signifying nothing ...

Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it ...

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ...

No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but ...

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion ... ...

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as ...

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government ...

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us.Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

You need not treat me like a child, sir. I am perfectly capable of navigating this staircase on my own."He snorted.Her nostrils flared. "I promise ...

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year ... All around, we ...

When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or ...

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe ...

To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and ...

It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool ...

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he ...

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority ...

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad ...

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened ...

Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo

Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. ...

I shall make the reckless choiceSome day when they are in voiceAnd tossing so as to scareThe white clouds over them on.I shall have less ...

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you ...

We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on ...

I saw a stony mask come upon her lined face as she slew the weak houswife she had been and gave birth to the warrior ...

Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until ...

Thank you to all the people who have triggered my issues. You have helped me clarify what they are, start the healing process and ultimately ...

After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves, because we can never live ...

All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk ...

We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the ...

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, ...

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.