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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian ...
But far within him something cried For the great tragedy to start, The pang in lingering mercy fall And sorrow break upon his heart. - ...
HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it ...
Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with ...
[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
Harrier says the Wild Magic is as annoying as a goat. And the only other Wildmage either of us has ever met kept hitting him ...
The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few.
The alchemist pulled his gaze back to Vorcan,
A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the emotions ...
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles.
If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not ...
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in ...
So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn ...
When you're in the city, trapped among the cubic structures, it's easy to forget that you're connected to the earth, because you're so separated from ...
In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; ...
'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't ...
You think this is funny?" I snorted. "You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don't get you.
How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter ...
Ladies and gentlemen, if you ask someone to marry you and the person pukes, that's a sign.
I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what ...
To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
To go to bed, and that's when I saw him there,
Yours most sincerely,Peter Van Houtenc/o Lidewij Vliegnthart"WHAT?!" I shouted aloud. "WHAT IS THIS LIFE?
Life is but a breath,man is only dust;today he is here,tomorrow he is no more.
After cash or valuables.
Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people ...
Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.
Jack assumed they would be heading to the pub there in Century House. It was drab, like the rest of the building, but more important, ...
While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their ...
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between ...
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 ...
You can provide a short-format content, and it can grow, and it can spread virally across the entire Twitter system, and it can contain within ...
I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I ...
Yelena. What a lovely day! ... Not to hot either. Voynitski. It would even be pleasant to hang oneself on a day like this.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.[Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut ...
The text, written in Latin, was inspired by a fifteenth-century chef known as Maestro Martino and was called De honesta voluptate et valitudine, On honest ...
Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.
Vorobyaninov, I've got a pressing artistic task for you,' he whispered. 'Go over to the exit from the first-class hallway and stand there. If somebody ...
Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.
I've given you everything," she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes," I agreed. She had, it was true. She did. She did. ...
Vidura could have been Yudhishthira's surrogate father.
Lamen though of modest origins was a thoughtful young man who spoke Veretian very well, even if his knowledge of cloth was lacking. 'I
Research tells us liars tend to gesture less, touch less, and move their arms and legs less than honest people (Vrij, 2003, 65).
Damon: "What about me?"Rebekah: "You have a nice behind.
Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine ... ...
The very life which we enjoy is short.[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
There aren't many people who can say they've vandalized a three-billion-dollar spacecraft, but I'm one of them.
I devote my life in service of humanity.
For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look ...
But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us ...
The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my ...
We'll play tomorrow. Besides, isn't it time for my cup of dinner?""I am not your blood gofer. Suck my dick, Vampirellie-suck it."(Ellie and Regin, Lothaire, ...
O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself
It is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from ...
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
There are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that
If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or ...
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
If he was not personally loud, however, he was deep, and during these closing days of the Roman May he knew a complacency that matched ...
If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going, / Or what ...
It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.
I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away ...
Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. ...
Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going ...
How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw ...
Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know ...
Sanguine: You mind if I take pictures? Brought my own camera and everythin'Valkyrie: Knock yourself outSanguine: ThanksValkyrie: No, really, run head first into a wall ...
But indeed, nature herself seemed to have been his vintner, and at his birth charged him so thoroughly with an irritable, brandy-like disposition, that all ...
Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and ...
Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't ...
By relying primarily on voluntary co-operation and private enterprise, in both economic and other activities, we can insure that the private sector is a check ...
It would be wrong to describe Fennel as courageous as it would be wrong to describe a leopard as courageous.It runs when it can but ...
It'd been a long time since she'd met a guy who could bring her down to earth - or follow her into the stars.
Newer and more modern cemeteries, devoid of cypress trees or any other vegetation, were usually situated well outside the new quarters and surrounded by tall ...
In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any ...
I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a ...
I watch them through the glass: specimens. Flies. I watch them. And I know. In ways normal men cannot: I know. I see thing: beyond ...
54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, ...
And volunteering in the community. Mind, body, and spirit, the cadets were told. Over and
What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity. ...
Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English." "But Italian is so moving," Dain said. "To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." ...
There aren't really rules for painting, but there's certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort ...
From the old word 'photus' in Latation, vhich means - " "'To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the ...
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
At Baupost, we constantly ask: 'What should we work on today?' We keep calling and talking. We keep gathering information. You never have perfect information. ...
Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the ...
I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee.""Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like ...
Winners are just ex-losers who got mad
When you're fighting a raging war inside your own head, the rules of engagement aren't clear.
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral ...