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Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.
There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you ...
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.
During disasters young children usually take their cues from their parents. As long as their caregivers remain calm and responsive to their needs, they often ...
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
In the end, the tenses of the verbs settled into a common groove, the persons of the narrators, first and third (the latter with so ...
I am beginning to feel at home in the past and a visitor to this strange and blanched experience we agree to call the present
She was already moving down the hall in the opposite direction from Deke, and so once again any protest I might have made was largely ...
The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is ...
I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another stupid girl ...
I should mention, by the way, that LVR stands for Luminal Velocity Regulator. I suppose it could also stand for Large Venezeulan Rats, but in ...
He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look ...
The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.
We hold firm our phones,In case we capture that shot,Of a jumbo jet falling,Or that child time forgot.
The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.
People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly ...
Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.
All you need is coffee, some cigarettes, and a Twitter account and your writing career begins! How far you go is determined by the followers ...
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?Remember how she said that We would meet again Some sunny day?Vera! Vera!What has become of you?Does anybody else hereFeel ...
It has been brought to my attention that I may be a verbivore. I consumptor of words, that I subsequently spew forth with considerable consternation.A ...
Leo's very existence had been a kind of perpetual punishment for Vasili. So, then, why did he miss him?
Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to a ...
Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over ...
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he ...
Many Of Them Have Things What They Lack Is The Richness Of Spirit
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.[Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to ...
The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
There is no alternative to class struggle.
There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.
The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can ...
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky ...
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world
You look angry," he said."You put me on hold.""For a very good reason.""You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.
Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.
So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief;Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,And ...
I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to ...
The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first Vadodara has first right on me.
He kisses her. She kisses him. They kiss.
The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.
When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.
I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 ...
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works ...
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no ...
I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to ...
I turned anxiously, looking for him so that I could give him a giant hug. yet, as my eyes searched the room, it wasn't Adrian's ...
Had no conviction. I had no foundation. My game changed from day to day, lesson to lesson. It seemed I had been looking everywhere but ...
I hate all these crazy verbs, using a subjunctive to get what's happened in the future and the past mixed up.
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again.
I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, ...
I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents ...
Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady ...
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.[Lat., Semita certeTranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
Yo, I'm god incarnate. From the grimiest back blocks. Pazienza lyrical equivalent of Sasquatch
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars ...
If you want a better answer, krasivyy, ask a better question. - Koldan Vasin
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta ...
His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.
If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself ...
I found out who started that ugly rumor and I'll slap them to sleep...and then slap them for sleeping.
My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am ...
But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and ...
Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a ...
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of ...
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys ...
The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.
The scariest thing about drugs is the brink of it all: when you're on the verge of insanity but you think your actions sane. And ...
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.
Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments,
Dracula!" She said, turning to Daniel.He shook his head. "No, my name is Daniel.
Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more ...
To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal ...
What is important is not that in every man are the roots of good and evil, but which of the two prevails.
It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.
We don't break our captains. We kill them.
We just got word that Virgin Airlines (which Branson owns) was awarded a commercial route into Shanghai. So the balloon must be doing some good.
People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it ...
There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. ...
Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood ...
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
I c-c-can't use the vidphone," Isidore protested, his heart laboring. "Because I'm hairy, ugly, dirty, stooped, snaggle-toothed, and gray. And also I feel sick from ...
I shoved him off the snowmobile. He landed on his back in the snow. Love is a brat, you think? No, love id fine. You ...
She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.
A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information.
I'm sure that a veiled arabian woman's exposed toes contains more sex appeal than a western pin-up's total nudity.