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It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the ...
I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is ...
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you ...
If ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery, it was I." "Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous ...
In a while he would make the necessary notes, describing the only known cure for Vitriol: an awareness of life.
I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
What is the science of Vitraag (the enlightened ones free of attachment)? [It is that where] If one understands a single word of the Vitarag, ...
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
Probability said that someday we would run out of luck - as
If we listen to and follow the promptings of the Spirit, they will serve as a Liahona, guiding us through the unknown, challenging valleys and ...
The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful ...
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.[Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take ...
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time ...
Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.
He had writing the way other people had religion
It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy (beatum ...
This desire to govern a woman it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together ... But I do love you surely ...
His anger was a terrible thing when roused. Viserys called it waking the dragon.
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of ...
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are ...
It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it ...
We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.
Ben hid a wince behind his hand, trying very hard not to think of seventy-year-old Ellie Verstgard rolling around with Mr. Wenner. Despite his best ...
I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you.
Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which ...
Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to ...
Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way ...
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody ...
I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.
Gotten butt-ass, bone-dog naked for your vadge-cam?" Dante offered with an angelic smile, standing close."Fucking hell, D." Griff turned to Beth with an apology, but ...
And that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am ...
Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.
Ocean is my potion, I need vitamin sea ...
How I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars ...
I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm ...
The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.
Whereas militant Christianity triumphs over all, generative Christianity transforms the world through humble service to all. It is not about victory; it is about following ...
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the ...
Like some scurrilous king stripped of his vestiture and driven together with his fool into the wilderness to die.
Here's the dirty little secret: Fiat currency is designed to lose value. Its very purpose is to confiscate your wealth and transfer it to the ...
We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What ...
True Friendship is a bliss that no person should miss,As there can be only a handful in your life who can bestow it upon you ...
He bent lower to whisper in her ear, I love you, queen of beauty and love.
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi:Latin term for If I cannot find a way I will make my own
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game ...
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing ...
Jensen looked concerned."I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?" He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you ...
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That's why we don't eat animals.
When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break ...
I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...
Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to ...
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role ...
The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other ...
But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words.
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to ...
Libertarianism is "cultish," say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass ...
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
More than two thousand five hundred years ago. We have no way of knowing who painted this wall, but he speaks to us across all ...
There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.
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 ...
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & ...
Nothing is as it should be. Everything is upside down.But I know I can fix this. I can do it.
'Monuments Men' is a movie ... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting ...
Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement ...
By meditating, you are beginning to act and every action which is pleasing to God brings you closer to the actualization of your God-given vision
It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had ...
Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair ...
Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.
Everything is just so fraught with tendentious bullshit.
You know you were with the lessers, true?"Butch lifted one of his busted-up hands. "And here I thought I'd been to Elizabeth Arden.
Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.
You may not be aware, ma douce, but not all vampyre have a kindred, some will live out their existence without such beauty in their ...
Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.
Whenever I've had to make a major decision as a doctor, cop or for a company I've worked for, I ask myself: What is the ...
It was only in Palo Alto that I searched "Rachav Binder" and "Rach Binder," got an undousable flame of her defense of an article of ...
The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of ...
Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then ...
They can go about collecting every material thing of worldly value, but they're missing everything that truly counts. When you've got nothing else, family means ...
I hope popchips will be the Vitaminwater of the snack aisle.
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa ...
It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record ...
I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned in ...
E ate so much that he became too fat to see to eat his vittels.
We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of ...
Do you know much about the Vittra?""Some." He held out an orange slice to me. "Want some?""No, thanks." I shook my head. "How much is ...
In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be.
'Scrubs' has always had a very loyal fan base. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after 'Friends,' but I think ...
Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots ... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during ...
With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.